Judith butler Samenvattingen, Aantekeningen en Examens

Butler writes of ‘the false universal of man’ as a means to express the universal notion of what the human is, and what it is perceived to be due to the configuration of these cultural frames and historical images. Butler notes that gender is defined as being merely a set of performative acts, formed culturally and socially by repeating stylised body gestures.

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Samenvatting van het keuzevak: introduction into gender and sexuality studies (colleges artikelen samengevat)

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First Year Program: Judith Butler’s “Imitation and Gender Insubordination” and Harmony Hammond’s “Lesbian Artists”

Analysis of Butler's "The Trouble of Gender"

This essay explores attitudes towards the institution of marriage through insightful textual analysis and critical theory. The essay employs Judith Butler's theories on performativity (something not many students would think to do) to delve deeper into marriage being an artificial construct. This essay achieved a first class grade.

In poetry which features figures related to heroic society, such as Beowulf, it appears that it is not so much the presence of the female, but rather a woman who performs Halberstam’s “female masculinity” which causes a greater scrutiny on what constitutes the male. It is interesting to note that the tension generated by the potential contamination, and consequent obliteration of the category of “male” which surfaces in Beowulf is figured as an act of penetration. Although female prese...