Essays on Gender Performativity

Over the years, society has found a way to develop, downgrade, and even stay still in some sort of grey area for a few years. But the thing is, there is no “grey area”. As a society, we are constantly evolving without notice. You don’t...

When Judith Butler contemplates about gender, she uses the concept of the productive nature of iteration, continuing the tradition of Derrida. As she argues in Gender Trouble, the iteration of conventional behavioral practices precede bad, excessive or infelicitous performances, this is exactly why the performative...

In this course, I have learnt that gender is different from sex, which we are biologically determined. Indeed, “gender is not something that we are automatically born with but something we constantly ‘perform’”. Some people may perform more masculine that possess more instrumental qualities, such...

The body, identity, and gender, to a certain extent constitutes each other. In the 1999 film, The Matrix, Lana and Lily Wachowski demonstrate the reality, the true physical world, and the life outside the Matrix. Trinity plays an important role in the film since she...

Gender refers to socially constructed roles, actions, activities, and traits. The terms ‘man’, ‘masculine’, ‘woman’, and ‘feminine’ represent gender. Sex and gender, and the terms, ‘male/female’ and ‘man/woman’ are frequently used and understood interchangeably. Gender norms are studied and are not immobile; they advance and...

Gender Trouble acted as a revolutionary text for feminism and it’s ability to achieve change, as Butler addresses and clarifies two main confusions within the movement; what defines a “woman” and what defines a “subject”. Butler argues that gender is a construct that comes from...

The Danish Girl, written by David Ebershoff, is a biographical novel about Einar Wegener or later known as Lili Elbe. The novel was written based on the autobiographical book ‘Man into Woman’ by Lili Elbe, the first transsexual person in the history. It will be...