Gender Trouble Couplets, Volume 1

"Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity radically claimed that the sexed body is a fallacy, discursively constructed by the performance of gender. A.W. Strouse has undertaken to rewrite Butler’s classic tome into an octosyllabic poem. Inspired by the rhyming encyclopedias of the Middle Ages, Strouse transforms each of Butler’s sentences into Seussian couplets. This performative repetition of Chapter 1 of Butler’s Gender Trouble, “Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire,” deconstructs Butler’s deconstruction. Relishing in the campiness of rhyme and meter—in the bodily pleasures of form—Strouse’s Gender Trouble Couplets, Volume 1 is an imitation for which there is no original. Gender Trouble, perhaps, was poetry all along.

Judith Butler's Critique of Binary Gender Opposition in Gender Trouble: A Task-Based Lesson Sequence

This chapter presents a task-based lesson sequence based on Judith Butler's Gender Trouble. Gender Trouble is a great piece of philosophical literature. However, as philosophical literature is a genre rarely found in EFL teaching, this chapter first demonstrates in detail the merits of this genre for the teaching ofEnglish for Academic Purposes. After a brief analysis of the source text, which deconstructs the entire sex-gender link and presents both sex and gender as free-floating, this chapter presents task-based methodology and how it is utilized in a lesson aimed at building gender awareness and acceptance. In the target task students are asked to take the role of an ethics teacher at an Irish high school, in which the discussion arose whether the school should introduce unisex toilets and changing rooms in order to not discriminate against transsexual students. Tue study of Butler's philosophy will provide students with both the knowledge and language to accomplish this task. Open follow-up discussions often lead to powerful ethical insights in the context of gender, homo- and transsexuality

Gender Trouble in The Color Purple

This paper aims to analysis the gender trouble in Alice Walker’s novel The color purple. Winning the highest award in America literature------Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Alice Walker, the contemporary American black woman writer, engages a series of gender and ethical topics in her work. She pays special attention to the gender identity of black women who are under dual oppression. Based on Gender Trouble of Judith Butler, this paper analyses the three protagonists’ different sexual orientation, viz, heterosexuality、homosexuality and bisexuality. Through going deeper into the psychoanalysis of the protagonists and evaluating their choice of love object, I argue that Alice Walker intends to inform her readers that there should be no oppositions between different sexual orientation. The Color Purple brings about the collapse of traditional binary opposition of gender difference and the realization of the subversion of identity. And I conclude that Alice Walker yearns for the harmony coexistence of the three different sexual orientations

Making Gender Trouble: How Sex Education Subverts Compulsory Heteronormativity and Re- Imagines Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble

This paper approaches the internationally successful Netflix series Sex Education through Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble and investigates how the show – through its characters – imagines and constructs a realm of cultural possibility that exceeds the heteronormative matrix. This paper reads the representation of the characters Eric Effiong (Ncuti Gatwa) and Adam Groff (Connor Swindells) throughout the first season of Sex Education as an answer to questions Butler poses concerning identity and legibility. In doing so, this paper argues that the series subverts culturally constructed heteronormativity through the repetition of attributes which construct the heteronormative matrix. The show thus, through this repetition, destabilizes the attributes that – according to Butler – naturalize this exact matrix. This paper thus explores how Sex Education engages with Butler’s ideas and suggests how the realm of cultural possibility that Butler imagines might function

Journeys to Others and Lessons of Self: Carlos Castaneda in \u3cem\u3eCamposcape\u3c/em\u3e

Drawing on Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia, this article examines the importance of place and gender within constructions of race politics in Carlos Castaneda’s series on shamanism. Championing a “separate reality” predicated on an indigenous worldview, Castaneda’s lessons invited transnational middle-class youth to journey alongside him to camposcape—an anachronistic and idealized countryside—as a means to escape the bourgeois values of their homelands and find spiritual fulfillment in a timeless and authentic Mexico. Castaneda’s work proposed new viable spaces of difference in Mexico, yet inscribed these spaces with a masculinist discourse that served to neutralize the gender trouble within the counterculture movement in both Mexico and the US

Gender trouble and its impact on fertility intentions

It is often an underlying assumption that the new role of women and in general the trend toward a more egalitarian view of the concept of partnership is a main factor behind the low fertility rates in rich countries The aim of this paper is to test the consequences of gender (in)equity on the desire of women and men to have (further) children by using gender inequity as an important category within population science. In our assumptions we want to test whether an unequal distribution of household chores and childcare duties has a negative effect on the desire to have children. Another assumption examines the potential correlation that the perception of (in)equality of women and men in society or the acceptance of government measures to ensure equal rights might have with the desire to have children. The data are derived from the recent Austrian survey Population Policy Acceptance Survey. The assumptions are tested by means of logistic regression analysis. The results show that it is new men who are likely to express a wish for children, rather than those who live in traditional partnership models

The Moudawana Syndrome: Gender Trouble in Contemporary Morocco

The present article examines the way Zakia Tahiri’s film Number One (2009) foregrounds a renewed understanding of gender and gender relations in contemporary Morocco, especially in the wake of the New Family Code Reform (Moudawana), which has revolutionized women’s status by increasing their power in the private as well as the public spheres. It centers not on the oft-studied subject of women and the regulation of femininity in Arab countries, but on the complex relationship between masculinity and performance, highlighting the sociocultural norms that have shaped and affected the performance of masculinity in Arabo-Muslim contexts. In particular, this study examines how Tahiri uses subversive comedy to challenge traditional views and constructions of male and female roles, to expose and dismantle the normative constructions of masculinity, and to promote the emergence of a new social frame that begs for different gender performances

Gender Trouble and Social Psychology: How can Butler’s work inform experimental social psychologists’ conceptualization of gender?

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Frontiers Media via the DOI in this record.A quarter of a century ago, philosopher Judith Butler (1990) called upon society to create “gender trouble” by disrupting the binary view of sex, gender, and sexuality. She argued that gender, rather than being an essential quality following from biological sex, or an inherent identity, is an act which grows out of, reinforces, and is reinforced by, societal norms and creates the illusion of binary sex. Despite the fact that Butler’s philosophical approach to understanding gender has many resonances with a large body of gender research being conducted by social psychologists, little theorizing and research within experimental social psychology has drawn directly on Butler’s ideas. In this paper, we will discuss how Butler’s ideas can add to experimental social psychologists’ understanding of gender. We describe the Butler’s ideas from Gender Trouble and discuss the ways in which they fit with current conceptualizations of gender in experimental social psychology. We then propose a series of new research questions that arise from this integration of Butler’s work and the social psychological literature. Finally, we suggest a number of concrete ways in which experimental social psychologists can incorporate notions of gender performativity and gender trouble into the ways in which they research gender.This work was supported in part by a European Commission Grant (725128) awarded to the second author

Gender trouble? On the gender constitution of clergymen's wives

When my informant Elisabeth told me: “You have to accept it, otherwise one cracks up”, my first thought was that I here was dealing with a serious kind of “gender trouble” or at minimum a serious kind of marital trouble. This because Elisabeth, on the one hand, claimed to be a “modern”, professional woman with a full-time job and yet, on the other hand, told me that she was subordinated under her husband’s occupation and that she was willing to accept this

Gender Trouble Girl: The Disruptive Work of Kim Gordon

Kim Gordon has been referred to as the “Godmother of Grunge,” the “Godmother of alternative rock,” “rock’s reigning experimental diva,” the original “Riot Mom,” and other similar sobriquets when mentioned as an important influence on younger women musicians such as Courtney Love or the bands in the Riot Grrrl movement, but her work has been given only superficial treatment in both the popular and academic literature. Many scholars have addressed more overtly feminist musicians in their work on popular music, but few have focused on the work of Kim Gordon other than to refer to her influence. The mainstream historical record of Gordon’s music-making is not in agreement with the version I know from witnessing her perform and following her career in the underground press for the past two decades. The intent of this thesis is to scrutinize Gordon’s work to reveal how she has successfully established a role for herself as an equal contributing member of a mixed-gender band, how she fits into a genealogy of disruptive musicians, how she has negotiated the gendered expectations for women popular musicians to be either glamorous stars or supportive background figures without enacting either stereotype, how she has continued to transcend gender stereotypes over time, and how she challenges the double standard that posits men as getting better with age while women are expected to disappear or make more conservative choices. This analysis substantiates her place in both the “Women in Rock” narrative and the broader history of late twentieth-century popular music as someone deemed influential, moving beyond the commonly used “Godmother of Grunge” epithet. I employ an interdisciplinary approach that combines methods from gender studies and musicology in order to locate the gender role disruptiveness and music historical significance of Kim Gordon’s work both chronologically and contextually. This approach is in keeping with the cultural study, analysis, and criticism of music applied to popular music by practitioners of what is called “new musicology,” such as Susan McClary, and Judith Peraino, and Robert Walse