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Judith Butler Shows How We Aren't Actually Born Male or Female
John Ibbitson — February 7, 2012 — Keynote Trends
References: rhetoric.berkeley.edu & youtube
In this insightful conversation with Judith Butler, a professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley, she shows how gender is assumed based on way we act. This is called performative gender, and in this video, the philosopher shows how it is applicable to society. She explains that it is our actions, roles and role playing that actually consolidate into an impression of what it is to be a man or a woman.
Butler believes that gender is culturally formed by the society one live in, but also believes that it can be an agent of freedom. In this video conversation, Judith Butler makes the controversial claim that no one is born a gender, but that people attain their gender through their experiences and that to be truly free we need to dismantle the policing of gender norms.
Butler believes that gender is culturally formed by the society one live in, but also believes that it can be an agent of freedom. In this video conversation, Judith Butler makes the controversial claim that no one is born a gender, but that people attain their gender through their experiences and that to be truly free we need to dismantle the policing of gender norms.
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