Topic > Gender Issues by Judith Butler - 1724

GenderStephen Morton in his Gayatri Spivak promotes Simone de Beauvoir's dictum, then emphasizes, The category of gender identity was not determined by one's biological sex; rather, gender is a social construction, which can be resisted through social and political struggle.(73) The tradition of universal humanist thought had further defined the difference between men and women as a natural fact, based on a biological foundation that is prior to the social and social one. cultural influence. Simone de Beauvoir had discredited this vision by stating that "you are not born a woman, you become a woman". The concept of performative gender is at the center of Judith Butler's work, particularly in Gender Trouble. In Butler's terms, the performance of gender, sex and sexuality is about the control of society. She locates the fabrication of the “gendered, sexualized and desiring subject” in “regulatory discourses.” Thus Butler's argument concerns the role of sex in the production of natural or rational gender and sexuality. In his relationship, gender and heterosexuality are constructed as natural because the opposition of the male and female sexes is considered natural in the social imagination. Gender difference like inequality is all shaped by economic, political, social and cultural factors. In the global context, this division of the world has created a radical difference between economic zones characterized by extremes of wealth and poverty. However, these equal relations are often reproduced within underdeveloped societies where non-white women often find themselves at the bottom of the racial divide. Thus the factors that produce different forms of oppression consist of class-based, ethnocentric and racist practices, and heterosexism. Gender acts... at the center of the card... perstitions, selfish greed and insensitivity that are the cause of gender differences. violence. In this chapter, Mahasweta Devi's anthology of short stories entitled Breast Stories analyzes representations of violence and oppression against women in the name of gender. In her Breast Stories, Devi twice evokes female characters from ancient Hindu mythology, imagines them as subaltern in the fictional historical context, and creates a connection with the female protagonists of her stories. As the title suggests, Breast Stories is a trilogy of short stories; was translated and analyzed by Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak and, according to Spivak, a woman's 'breasts' in these stories become the instrument of a brutal condemnation of patriarchy. In fact, breasts can be interpreted as the motif of violence in the three stories “Draupadi”, “Breast-Giver” and “Behind the Bodice”.,”