Frontiers | Gender Trouble in Social Psychology: How Can Butler’s Work Inform Experimental Social Psychologists’ Conceptualization of Gender?
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In other words, rather than being women or men, individuals act as women and men, thereby creating the categories of women and men. In other words, there is a belief that a baby born with a penis will grow up to identify and act as a man – whatever that means in a specific culture – and, as part of
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- In other words, rather than being women or men, individuals act as women and men, thereby creating the categories of women and men.
- In other words, there is a belief that a baby born with a penis will grow up to identify and act as a man – whatever that means in a specific culture – and, as part of this gender role, be sexually attracted to women.
- The two sexes only appear natural, obvious, and important to us because of the gendered world in which we live. More specifically, the repeated performance of two polar, opposite genders makes the existence of two natural, inherent, pre-discursive sexes seem plausible. In other words, Butler views gender as a performance in which we repeatedly enga...
- refers to speech acts or behaviors which create the very thing they describe
- The binary performance of gender is further reinforced by the reactions of others to those who fail to adhere to gender norms
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