{"id":1784,"date":"2013-12-18T18:59:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T18:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/?page_id=1784"},"modified":"2015-03-15T02:28:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T02:28:15","slug":"week-10","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/courses\/queer-theory\/weekly-work\/week-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 10: Performativity and Gender"},"content":{"rendered":"

Butler’s account of performativity . . . problematises the very notion of subjective agency in and through its deconstruction of the humanist subject. Performativity, as Butler understands it, is the pre-condition of the subject, the discursive vehicle through which ontological effects are produced. There is not first an ‘I’ who performs, rather, the ‘I’ is constituted in and through performative processes.
\n —Nikki Sullivan, A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory<\/em> (89)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Required Readings<\/h3>\n

Sullivan, Ch. 5 \u201cPerformance, Performativity, Parody, and Politics\u201d (81-98)<\/p>\n

Graduate Readings [on Moodle2<\/a>]: Salih intro to Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex<\/em> (138-first paragraph on 143); Butler Bodies That Matter<\/em>, Ch. 4 \u201cGender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion\u201d (121-40)<\/p>\n

Additional Resources<\/h3>\n

Film: Paris is Burning<\/a><\/i> (Jennie Livingston 1990), Film trailer<\/a>, YouTube interview with director and cast<\/a><\/p>\n

Due This Week<\/h3>\n
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  1. Ten key Terms or concepts in readings<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Two LGBTQIA representations<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Two LGBTQIA issues<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Presentation of representations and issues<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Queer Theory Week 10 Questions on Readings<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Week 9 and Week 10 Graduate Reading Questions and Presentations on Butler<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Paper<\/a> abstract, outline, and bibliography due (5050)<\/strong><\/li>\n
  8. Group 2\u00a0Presentation: \u00a0Jessie Howie, Sam[aneh] Balali, Chris Lovick<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Butler’s account of performativity . . . problematises the very notion of subjective agency in and through its deconstruction of the humanist subject. Performativity, as Butler understands it, is the pre-condition of the subject, the discursive vehicle through which ontological effects are produced. There is not first an ‘I’ who performs, rather, the ‘I’ is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1716,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1784","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2WAwc-sM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2244,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1784\/revisions\/2244"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}