Butler, Judith, 1956-
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1956-02-24
Occupations
Places
- United States (Associated Country)
Topics
- Education, Higher
- Feminist theory
- Literature--Philosophy
- Philosophical literature
- Comparative literature
- Feminism
- Sex
Languages Used
- English
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Dysfunctional relationships, performance and performativity : a comparison of contemporary dramas with Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, 2014
Item — Call number MU Thesis Nag
Identifier: b7607922
Abstract
This thesis examines Edward Albee's drama Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and compares contemporary dramas on how women still suffers [sic] from the same problems with gender and society today. Taking Judith Butler's concept of performance and performativity, the outlook of the females are the same. This thesis takes Butler's ideal but converts them [sic] into a new idea. Butler believes one...
Dates:
2014
Gender-as-rhetoric : the rhetorical complexity of transgender identity and the challenge to performativity in Redefining Realness and Tomorrow Will Be Different, 2023
Item — Call number MU Thesis Cop
Identifier: b7931647
Abstract
Since the publication of Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble in 1990, transgender scholars have challenged performativity theory on the basis that it describes gender as something frivolous and quickly “taken off” or “put on.” However, these critiques are inadequate because a closer reading of performativity theory shows that the theory stresses the slow sedimentation of gender over time. Regardless, performativity theory still does not properly accommodate...
Dates:
2023