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What is 'performativity?' |
Performativity of gender is stylized repetition of acts, an imitation or miming of the dominant conventions of gender. |
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How does Butler contribute to this theory? |
In her book, Gender Trouble pub 1990, she argues that "the act that one does, the act one performs is, in a sense, an act that's been going on before one arrived on the scene. |
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What else does she have to say?
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Gender is the repeated stylization of the body, a set of repeated acts within a highly rigid regulatory framework that congeal over time to produce the appearance of substance of a natural sort of being. |
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Q: In a the video 'The Best of Louis Spence' how does he use language in performing a gender identity? |
Concrete nouns like: "Queen" "Darling" Talking about cleaning and challenges masculine styles. His behaviour is: Camp Eccentric Fuel on. |
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Q: In the 'Father Knows Best' speech event done by the linguists (Ochts and Taylor, 1993) what does it show? |
The dinnertime speech event showed reproducing gender speaking roles and rights Introducer: Mother - "You wanna tell Daddy what happened to you today?" Protagonists: Mother, children. Recipient: Father. Evualuator/Monitor/Judge: Father -"Your mother said you were thinking of getting on the swim team? Good. |
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Q: What did Eckert & McConnel-Ginet in 1993 say about 'performativity being about style' |
" Style is a combination of what we do and how we do it. " |
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Q: What masculine and feminine styles are available for us and how do we perform them? |
Adjectives - more blunt for men "cool", "alright" - more descriptive for women "pretty" House Different feminine/masculine roles. Man decision maker through declaratives Women supporting doesn't have active role. Tag questions - women use them, mainly for uncertainty Men more blunt/aggressive - showing less emotion. Feminine style - more gentle/softer in the way they speak. |