Essays on 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 ‘acts’ and Simone...

Judith Butler, born in 1956, she is a prominent American philosopher and figure in third wave feminism. Butlers work on Gender is an exploration of how gender is formed or exists. Is gender a preexisting entity we have a natural instinctual understanding of from birth?...

Judith Butler, one of the most influential gender theorists of the modern era, fundamentally altered the landscape of feminist philosophy with her theory on the performativity of gender. Her work, subversive in its own right, effectively disproved the idea of gender and sex as naturally...

During the time Judith Butler wrote Gender Trouble it was thought that sex and gender are different. However, Judith Butler argued that these concepts could be quite similar; this signifies her different perspective on gender. She further argues that sex is socially consisted just as...

The Passion of New Eve, with its focus on gender crossing and gender performativity, has been read as anticipating developments in queer theory. This essay will look at how the novel explores the idea of gender as a social construct. To do this, it will...

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...

Topic Analysis Gender performance is the act that people perform certain behaviours to show ‘his/her’ gender. For example, a person wears a dress and high heels to show that she is a female. While gender performativity is the theory that, a person’s performance is naturally...

Women have been important for political movements for national sovereignty. The conceptual framework of the relationship between women’s movement and women’s liberalization indicates that gender plays a significant role in the activism of Tibetan women. Firstly, the structural functionalism explains that gender is a means...