LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Women’s gender is artificial, while men’s gender is not.
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While gender is not real, the stereotypes that accompany it are true.
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Gender is largely a cultural construct.
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All of the above answers are correct.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Described as the ‘superstar’ of the ‘90s alternative culture academics, her ideas have created an impact on both society and politics. Butler’s philosophy revolves around identity and queer theory. Queer theory suggests that a person cannot be identified on the basis of any one characteristic, such as gender.
Detailed explanation-2: -Gender performativity posits that gender is made up of the acts that mark a person as “man” or “woman” (dress, mannerisms, ect) and it is through the repetition of those gendered acts that the illusion of a stable gender identity is created.
Detailed explanation-3: -“Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.” Gender Trouble was first published in 1990, and has been widely received as a revolutionary text in areas of feminism, women’s studies, and queer and gender studies.