{"id":1535,"date":"2013-05-31T00:46:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T00:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/?page_id=1535"},"modified":"2013-11-20T15:50:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T15:50:58","slug":"week-8","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/courses\/theoretical-approaches-to-sexuality\/weekly-work\/week-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Theorizing Social Construction: Performativity<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]he concept of performativity . . . explains those everyday productions of gender and sexual identity which seem most to evade explanation. For gender is perfomative, not because it is something that the subject deliberately and playfully assumes, but because, through reiteration, it consolidates the subject. In this respect, performativity is the precondition of the subject.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>&#8212;Annamarie Jagose, <em>Queer Theory: An Introduction <\/em>(86)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Required Readings<\/strong><br \/>\nJagose <em>Queer Theory<\/em>, Ch. 7 (83-93)<br \/>\nSalih <em>The Judith Butler Reader<\/em>, Introduction (1-17), Introduction \u201cBodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions (1990)\u201d (90-94), Preface [to second edition of <em>Gender Trouble<\/em>] (94-103) (<a href=\"http:\/\/moodle.uncc.edu\">Moodle<\/a>)<br \/>\nButler <em>Gender Trouble<\/em> Preface (pp. ix-xiv), Ch. 1 \u201cSubjects of<br \/>\nSex\/Gender\/Desire\u201d (1-9), Ch. 3 \u201cSubversive Bodily Acts\u201d:<br \/>\n\u201civ. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions\u201d (128-141),<br \/>\nConclusion \u201cFrom Parody to Politics\u201d (142-49) (<a href=\"http:\/\/moodle.uncc.edu\">Moodle<\/a>)<br \/>\nSalih <em>The Judith Butler Reader<\/em>, Introduction [to excerpt from <em>Bodies That Matter<\/em>] (138-143) (<a href=\"http:\/\/moodle.uncc.edu\">Moodle<\/a>)<br \/>\nButler <em>Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex<\/em>, Preface (ix-xii), Introduction (1-23), Ch. 4 \u201cGender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion\u201d (121-40) (<a href=\"http:\/\/moodle.uncc.edu\">Moodle<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Resources <\/strong><br \/>\nFilm: <a href=\"http:\/\/italy.imdb.com\/title\/tt0100332\/\">Paris is Burning<\/a> (Jennie Livingston 1990) [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qCp99A2Cni0&amp;feature=PlayList&amp;p=F17F419B702A0F14&amp;playnext=1&amp;playnext_from=PL&amp;index=27\">YouTube excerpts<\/a>]<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2013\/05\/Perform_journal1.doc\">Sample journal entry 1<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2013\/05\/Perform_journal2.doc\">Sample journal entry 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Due This Week<a name=\"due\"><\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nWeekly journal entry including main points from readings, to be submitted electronically, and observations about your own sexuality and understanding of sexuality, to be kept in a private journal.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/221\/2013\/05\/GSwk8qstF11.doc\">Ch. 8 Homework Questions<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theorizing Social Construction: Performativity [T]he concept of performativity . . . explains those everyday productions of gender and sexual identity which seem most to evade explanation. For gender is perfomative, not because it is something that the subject deliberately and playfully assumes, but because, through reiteration, it consolidates the subject. 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