WSTA03H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Postmodern Feminism, Queer Theory, Gender Trouble
14 Apr 2015
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The belief that gender and sexuality are fixed and inevitable. Constantly questioning what is supposedly normal about gender sexuality. Undermining gendered social structures and gender hierarchies. Postmodern feminism focuses on gendered identities, body displays, and sexualities, seeing how they are shaped and manipulated by individuals and can be used to transgress the social order. Postmodern feminism strips away the faced of the normal and natural, demonstrating the performativity of heterosexuality, femininity, and masculinity. Postmodernism undermines foundational categories by insisting that bodies, identities, and statuses are contingent time bound, situational and culturally shaped. They insist that this can free feminism from the constraints of gender norms, conventional body ideals, and hetronormativity. Judith butlers"s concept of performativity from gender trouble encompasses the unconscious process of re-enactment that makes gendered selves that reiterate social norms of femininity and masculinity and inscribes femaleness and maleness on the body and heterosexuality on the psyche.
