EN 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ann Leckie, Ancillary Justice, Social Construction Of Gender

• School: York University
• Department: English
• Course: EN 2012
• Professor: Jordana Greenblatt

Document Summary

Reflecting on feelings in reaction to ann leckie and gender in ancillary. Justice, referring to examples in the text; use wittig or butler as a reasoning for why you feel the way you do. Performed taken on a role, acting in some way; crucial to the gender we are and present to the world. Performative produces series of effects, act, walk, speak, talk in ways that consolidate the impression of being a man or woman. We act that being of a man or woman is internally true a(cid:271)out us; it"s a(cid:272)tuall(cid:455) a phe(cid:374)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)o(cid:374) To say performative we say that no one is one gender from the start. (cid:862)siss(cid:455) (cid:271)o(cid:455)s(cid:863)/(cid:863)to(cid:373)(cid:271)o(cid:455)s(cid:863) to fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374) (cid:449)/o (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g teased or bullied; institutional powers created to keep us in our gendered place. Gender is culturally formed but is a domain of agency. 3 regulated and deviant performances are sometimes regulated with punishments: process through which we read the gender qualities is how we recognize viable life.