Judith Butler / Bell Hooks / Van Zoonen
Gender Performativity (Judith Butler)
Identity is a performance - it is constructed through a series of acts and expressions that we perform every day. While there are biological differences dictated by sex, our gender is defined through this series of acts. These may include the ways we walk, talk, dress, etc. Therefore, there is no gender identity behind these expressions of gender. Gender performativity is not a singular act, but a repetition and a ritual. It is outlined and reinforced through dominant patriarchal ideologies.
Feminist Theory (Bell Hooks)
Feminism is a struggle to end the patriarchal oppression and the ideology of domination, and that the position of the underrepresented is by class and race as well as gender.
Constructs of Masculinity: (Van Zoonen)
Movement
Silence and impassivity
Strength, muscularity, and aggression
Competition - males as gladiators or combatants
Constructed more through to intra-diegetic gaze - the ways that that they are looked at by other characters
Narcissistic identification without erotic gaze
Identity is a performance - it is constructed through a series of acts and expressions that we perform every day. While there are biological differences dictated by sex, our gender is defined through this series of acts. These may include the ways we walk, talk, dress, etc. Therefore, there is no gender identity behind these expressions of gender. Gender performativity is not a singular act, but a repetition and a ritual. It is outlined and reinforced through dominant patriarchal ideologies.
Feminist Theory (Bell Hooks)
Feminism is a struggle to end the patriarchal oppression and the ideology of domination, and that the position of the underrepresented is by class and race as well as gender.
Constructs of Masculinity: (Van Zoonen)
Movement
Silence and impassivity
Strength, muscularity, and aggression
Competition - males as gladiators or combatants
Constructed more through to intra-diegetic gaze - the ways that that they are looked at by other characters
Narcissistic identification without erotic gaze
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