Acts of Gender
For this discussion post I don't have a certain prompt concerning the work of Judith Butler in Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory. For myself, this was one of the tougher reads so far. What I believe Judith Baker to be explaining is that gender isn't something that one is born with, but is an identity that later comes upon us throughout the actions we take in life. So, what I would like to focus on is digging deeper into understanding these acts that she describes and how they could possibly lead to a gender construction for someone. I would also love to understand her to a greater degree. Judith Baker states in her writing, "If the ground of gender identity is the stylized repetition of acts through time, and not a seemingly seamless identity, then the possibilities of gender transformation are to be found in the arbitrary relation between such acts, in the possibility of a different sort of repeating, in the breaki...