WSTA03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Postmodern Architecture, Queer Theory, Performativity

• School: UTSC
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WSTA03H3
• Professor: Anissa Talahite- Moodley

Document Summary

Gender is shaped by language, discourse and representation: therefore, gender is fluid. Gender can be a choice people make. Modern and post modern eras viewed as: there is no single way of experience the world and who we are, no single organizing principles in society. A post-modern feminist theory that: highlights how gender, se, and sexuality are performatively enacted and therefore not embedded in natural" human condition, emphasizes the contingent character of gender, sex, and sexuality. Performativity: for queer theorists, gender is performative and heterosexuality is a by-product.