Essays on Gender Performativity

In William Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, Shakespeare seems to drop the perceived roles of gender and what traits and attributes are perceived with either the male or female gender. What makes the play written by Shakespeare unique is that Ariel is a male in his...

Understanding Gender performativity In the 1950s, J.L Austin, the British philosopher explored and explained his perspective of ‘performative language’. He is the first person who divided language into two types: constative and performative. (Butler, 2004) John Searle’s theory of ‘speech act’, the phenomenological theory of...

Gender, Sexuality, and Performativity Gender and sexuality aren’t necessarily related, and it isn’t talked about unless it’s in the context of homosexuality despite the fact that heterosexual people perform their gender and sexuality as well. In Daddy and the Muscle Academy it shows a change...

Female personal appearance and the politics of personal choice are largely shaped by the changing social landscape. Issues, particularly with respect to feminist notions of “body modification” has been hotly debated over the years and resultantly, an overwhelming body of research has been conducted on...