Prosser and Namaste take issue with these examples because they are missing context and are misrepresentative.
Butler uses examples of transgender people and examples of drag culture to confirm her idea that gender is performative. Transgender people claim that they experience a stable gender identity and they use the notion of a stable gender identity to explain to others that there is a mismatch between their body and their gender. The conclusion that gender identity is not stable has provoked criticism. Since it is impossible to view gender performativity separate from gender as an identity, I choose not to gender identity in a separate chapter. Gender being performative does not seem to leave room for gender as a stable identity. Gender and gender identity do not exist separately from each other. If gender is performative it is continuously subject to small changes and keeps constituting itself. Then is discussed what ‘gender is performative’ means. To understand the meaning of her claim, first the general concept of performativity needs to be explained. Wondering how that construction works, Butler claims that gender is performative. The next step is to explain the idea that gender is socially constructed. Butler’s reasoning consist of the idea that sex is socially constructed, just as gender is socially constructed. The next step is to give Butler’s critique on this distinction.
Therefore in order to understand Butler’s view it is relevant to start this thesis with the difference between sex and gender. This shows that she has a very different perspective on gender. However, Butler argued that these concepts could be the same. At the time Butler wrote Gender Trouble it was commonly thought that sex and gender are different. I realize that there are ways to avoid this, but in this thesis I prefer to keep the focus on Butler and her ideas. Both of these options are risky because those definitions may not match with Butler’s definition of gender and that could result in insensible comparisons and conclusions. I choose not to start with giving a commonly accepted definition of gender and the related concepts of sex and identity, neither do I use a definition of gender of my own. GENDER IDENTITY IS UNSTABLE 11 3.1 GENDER IDENTITY BEING UNSTABLE IS PROBLEMATIC 11 3.2 BUTLER’S EXAMPLE OF TRANSGENDER PEOPLE IS PROBLEMATIC 12 3.3 BUTLER’S EXAMPLE OF DRAG IS PROBLEMATIC 13 CONCLUSION 14 RESEARCH QUESTION 14 IMPLICATIONS IN A BROADER CONTEXT 15 METHOD 15 FURTHER RESEARCH 16 REFERENCES 17 APPENDIX 1 – FORM COGNIZANCE PLAGIARISM 18 4 refers to acts done by individuals, while other times the word gender is used interchangeably with sex. BUTLER’S NOTION OF GENDER PERFORMATIVITY 8 2.1 GENDER AS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT 8 2.2 WHAT IT MEANS TO BE PERFORMATIVE 9 3. IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GENDER AND SEX? 6 1.1 THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN GENDER AND SEX 6 1.2 BUTLER’S CRITIQUE OF THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN GENDER AND SEX 7 2.
Hendriks 1 Content ABSTRACT 2 INTRODUCTION 3 CONTEXT 3 RESEARCH QUESTION 3 METHOD 3 OUTLINE 4 1. Ton MSc 3702286 Faculty Humanities Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Research Group Philosophy Date: 25-06-2018 Supervisor: Dr.
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