Gender Performativi

ty, the Patriarchy,

and Systems of Oppression

Judith Butler and Gender Performance

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fndkPPJBi1U

• Based on this video and our readings, how is gender performed or performative? How do societal norms influence performativity?

Free-Write

• How do you perform gender? Think of some examples.

• How did you learn to do so?

Girl or boy? How can we tell?

What does this image imply about

gender norms?

Blogging and Beyond

• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/17/lego-ad-1981_n_4617704.html

• How does this add connect to the ideas discussed in today’s readings?

• Do you see a problem with the marketing of these items? If so, why?

Discussion Questions

• Based on our readings, how do people “participate” in patriarchy?

• What are systems of oppression?

• What does Bell Hooks mean when she says that people are simultaneously the oppressed and the oppressor?

• What is the “system," and how can we beat it?

• How might these issues apply to us at TCU?

• What other parts of the reading stood out to you and why?