The ideas that Judith Butler’s try to portrait as a sociologist is viewed in the form of a feminist theorist but with influence in topics of queer theory. The notion about sex, gender and desire interconnect to the her views that individuals are not born with a gender but rather we perform our gender. The readings done in class from the book Social Theory in the Contemporary Era presents the readers with questions that makes them re-evaluate the notion of what we consider our views in identifying gender and sex and desire. Our day to day activities and practices that we performed in everyday are questioned. In addition Butler mention the re-evaluation of the effects that culture holds in the performance of our gender and sex. As we continue getting more acquainted with Butler’s work in the subjects of sex/ gender and desire we learned new terminology such as gender performativity, Heterosexual matrix, socially constructed gender that relates to our current society.
Judith Butler open the topic of sex with the ideal that the separation of sex is a modern feminist view, where determined sex is a separation of biological sex. The understanding that I derived from the readings of Judith Butler’s was that an individual is not born with sex but rather sex is made by the everyday choices that we make in life. Our social roles that we performed in our everyday life is what help us determine the sex role that we will take in life. Butler explain this notion as the socially constructed gender were many females perform gender related actions that builds into the determination of the gender roles/sex. Butlers argues the notion that sex is a norm in addition she mentions that sex is no more that a natural category that is established by ...
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...Some examples that she mentions in her readings are related against the discrimination towards gays and their performances being out of the norm and create for other individuals to attack and their sexual preference. Butler tries to find similarities with both heterosexual and homosexual in order to show the similarities that these two groups have in the subject of desire. In order to demystify the negativity views that people have about homosexual individuals Butler decide to attack the negativity by creating similarities with the heterosexual group in order to have them view as similar to their own actions. Comparing the sex, gender and desire aspects to what is perceive as the normal men and normal women helps its readers to question its own methods of defining them sleeves and question the views that they have taken when looking at Gender, sex and desire.
I read How Vince Carter Conquered the NBA Drive, by Chris Young. I learned a lot of things about the NBA problems and the way the players really think not just how they show them in T.V. One of the things I learned about Vince Carter was that he had a lot of problems with his first manager. An example is when Richard Peddy his first manager got put in prison for stealing money from An NFL player. Vince Carter changed his manager and sued his old manager. I also learned that the first year that Vince Carter played he was underestimated the manager though he would be like a helping hand for Tracy Mcgrady his cousin and Ex-player for the Raptors. I also didn’t know that Vince Carter quit the contract with his sponsor Puma because the shoes were hurting his toes. I also found out that Vince Carter the second choice For the Raptors the Raptors first choice was “Tractor” Taylor a big center something the Raptors needed really bad. Another thing I learned was that the Raptors had to pay 27 million to get into the NBA. The last thing I learned was that Vince Carter did not want to do the NBA Dunk contest he was convinced to do it by his friend Kevin Garnett.
In his essay titled, “The Transformation of European Society”, Gary Nash argues how seventeenth and eighteenth century United States (U.S.) witnessed the birth of a distinct “democratic personality”. This personality had numerous effects on American society. Mr. Nash believed a society having democratic personalities exhibited the following qualities: individualization, competitiveness, and opportunity. Many factors led up to the creation of each of these traits. Americans wanted their own, distinct life, where they were not told how to act and what to think. Unfortunately, this was idealistic thinking. Reality was that they were swaying from the original goal of working towards the better of community, the Puritan way. Through the traits mentioned above in many ways could help society, they constantly went against it also. For example, many businesses, even parts of the government, were accused of being corrupt, and performing illegal acts in order to get ahead. U.S citizens were given so many options in life, many learned they could do better than what they were born to. The immense amount of land in the West led to many of these options. The land was cheap and unoccupied, meaning that it was relatively easy to gain success and achieve a higher social standing through the land. This was followed by the mindset of the “me” personality in much of American history. This also led to how competitiveness became ingrained into daily rational and overall life. A multitude of people were motivated to achieve more and become the vision of success that was driving their fellow man. Many of their visions were of owning land, and of being able to live a comfortable lifestyle. As Nash states, “living in a place where the ratio of people to ...
Robert Olen Butler Robert Olen Butler, Jr., was born January 20, 1945, and grew up in Granite City, Illinois, a steel town near St. Louis, Missouri. His father, Robert Olen Butler, Sr., was chair of the theater department at St. Louis University, and his mother, Lucille Hall Butler, an executive secretary. Butler graduated from the University of Illinois with a B.S. in oral interpretation. He went on to the University of Iowa, receiving his M.A. in playwriting in 1969. While in Iowa, he married, and then divorced Carol Supplee. When Butler finished graduate school he enlisted in the Army. He was assigned to Military Intelligence, given intensive training in the Vietnamese language, and sent to Vietnam. Butler’s “professional proficiency” was gained in a year’s immersion course, taught by a Vietnamese exile who also gave him insight into the Vietnamese culture and the struggles of an exile. His tour of duty was served in Saigon until 1972. It is felt by many that his war time training and experiences deeply influenced his life, writing, and thinking. In July 1972, he married the poet Marilyn Geller and worked as an editor and reporter in New York City for a year. When his wife became pregnant with their son, Joshua, the family moved back to Illinois. Butler taught as a substitute in his hometown of Granite City in 1973 and 1974, then became a reporter in Chicago. He moved back to the New York City area in 1975 and took a job as editor-in-chief of Energy User News, an investigative newspaper he created. According to Butler, every word of his first four published novels was written on a legal pad, by hand, on his lap, on the Long Island Railroad as he commuted back and forth from Sea Cliff to Manhattan. In 1985, Butler assumed an assistant professorship at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Louisiana is home to several Vietnamese communities, and the Louisiana Vietnamese provided Butler with material for his Pulitzer Prize-winning collection of short stories, A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain. Butler once said that he finds that much fiction about Vietnam fails to portray the Vietnamese people with sufficient depth, perhaps because it focuses more on the military action. His early work is dominated by the “Vietnam trilogy,” novels in which a minor character in one shows up as a major character in another.
In the essay written by Gary Nash, he argues that the reason for the American Revolution was not caused by the defense of constitutional rights and liberties, but that of “material conditions of life in America” were not very favorable and that social and economic factors should be considered as the driving factor that pushed many colonists to revolt. The popular ideology which can be defined as resonating “most strongly within the middle and lower strata of society and went far beyond constitutional rights to a discussion of the proper distribution of wealth and power in the social system” had a dynamic role in the decisions of many people to revolt. The masses ideas were not of constitutional rights, but the equal distribution of wealth in the colonies that many felt that the wealth was concentrated in a small percentage of the population in the colonies. The Whig ideology that was long established in English society had a main appeal towards the upper class citizens and “had little to say about changing social and economic conditions in America or the need for change in the future.” The popular ideologies consisted of new ways of changing the distribution of wealth. Nash in his essay continued to give good evidence to prove his point that the American Revolution was not caused by the defense of constitutional rights and liberties, but by improper distribution of wealth. During the pre-American Revolutionary times, the “top five percent of Boston’s taxpayers controlled 49 ...
There are 12240 students at Duke University, and every year 12 out of those 12240 are put on a mission. The expectations are far above the ground, these 12 men and their coaching staff are called the Duke University Blue Devils basketball team. Year after year their mission is to bring home an NCAA basketball national championship trophy. Three of 84 teams at Duke University have reached their goal by winning a national championship.
Butler effectively places the Oankali biology, culture, and way of life as the norm, through Lilith 's need, as well as the other 's, to accept them in order to survive, in turn constructing the humans as the marginal demographic. Butler 's decision to make humans abnormal helps the reader call into question what we deem as human characteristics and human nature, because we begin to see how we both align and separate ourselves from each other based upon biology and
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MAIN NAME SHEET David Carson was born in Texas in the United States. Many of his design influences have come from his early childhood while travelling around America, Puerto Rico and the West Indies. His first significant exposure to graphic design education came as part of a three-week workshop in Switzerland, where the Swiss graphic designer Hans-Rudolph Lutz influenced him. He then worked in a high school near San Diego from 1982 to 1987. During this time he also carried highly experimental graphic design as the art director of the magazine Transworld Skateboarding. Among his abilities of art directing, graphic designing and film directing, he was also a professional surfer. His immense interest in the surfing culture persuaded him to return to the West Coast where he helped launch the magazine Beach Culture. The magazine only lasted three years but Carson’s pioneering approach to design, particularly toward typography challenged the fundamental aspects of all design and graphic communication. SURFER SHEET Carson’s work was often arresting and powerfully communicative. From 1991 to 1992 he worked on Surfer magazine. The straightforward styling of the covers was a strong contrast to the later "How" magazine covers. Here you could associate with Carson as his unique use of typography filled each cover to give an interesting introduction to the contents. After this came his break into an international profile when he helped launch Raygun magazine, ...
“The Social Construction of Gender” talks about gender as a concept created by society. In it, the author explains why society felt the need to create gender as a social institution and how gender is embedded into everyday life. The labeling of people as male or female is used by societies as a way of deciding who takes over which responsibilities and who does which tasks. The author of the article concludes that gender and gender inequality is created by society
“…sex attains meaning in social relations, which implies that we can only make appropriate choices around sexuality by understanding its social, cultueral and political context.” (Quote: 9293 jeffrey weeks)
In Sigmund Freud’s “Sexual Morality and Modern Nervousness”, contained in Sexuality and the Psychology of Love, the writer presents separate roles for men and women as it relates to sexuality, even referring to a “double code of morality” (22) for the genders. In his paper the former often takes the role of the subject while the former becomes the object. In fact, women are described as the “true sexual guardians of the race” glorified, it seems, instead of truly studied. However, in one particular section of the essay, Freud turns his focus onto the female sexuality. In specific he references the various factors that, in his eyes, can influence the female sexual formation. The primary influences being that of the society, primarily the institution of marriage, and that of the family, which would include both a woman’s parents and children. After discussing these elements, Freud then
perspective on the concept, arguing that gender is a cultural performance. Her careful reading of
Because the subject matter of strategic management is so inherently complex and because each one of us brings his own personal biases to the analysis, it was suggested early on that virtually all case material in the field be analyzed from the perspective of more than one methodology. Profit theory and industrial chains were selected as the first of a number of viable approaches to the analytical process. It would have been equally correct to select the Five Competitive Forces analysis refined by Michael Porter, one of the major figures in the field of strategic management. This methodology addresses the same issues but differs only in the language that they use to describe corporate behavior. The five forces are:
According to Joan Scott, “sex” and “gender” have two separate meanings. Scott’s definition of gender is “a constitutive element of social relationships based on perceived differences…and is a primary way of signifying relationships of power.” A person’s gender varies based on their cultural, social, traditional and religious backgrounds. Many historians are riveted by the term “gender” and are vying to research it in depth to determine its actual meaning. In addition, each person will express