LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Gender does not reflect an essential truth, but rather is a role people play based on their internalization of socially constructed gender roles.
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Gender roles do not exist.
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Real gender roles are scripted by excellent writers.
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All of the above answers are correct.
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Detailed explanation-1: -By arguing that gender is not something one is, but rather something one does or performs, Butler argues that gender identity is not based on some inner truth, but instead a by-product of repeated gender performance.
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: -Gender performativity. The most influential concept in Butler’s work is “gender performativity”. This theory has been refined across Butler’s work over several decades, but it is addressed most directly in Gender Trouble (1990), Bodies That Matter (1993) and Undoing Gender (2004).
Detailed explanation-4: -“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.