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 Performativity and parody in pluralistic gender identity construction(PDF)

《长安大学学报(社科版)》[ISSN:1671-6248/CN:61-1391/C]

Issue:
2017年02期
Page:
147-152
Research Field:
心理学
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Title:
 Performativity and parody in pluralistic gender identity construction
Author(s):
 WANG Juan
 School of Foreign studies, Chang’ an University, Xi’an 710064, Shaanxi, China
Keywords:
 Judith Butler gender performativity gender identity performativity behavior parody dimension feminism
PACS:
H05
DOI:
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Abstract:
 In view of Judith Butler’s theory of gender performativity, this paper analyzed her writings and other researches. The results show that Judith Butler regards the gender identity construction as a mobility state of recurring performativity, which responses to a gender directive issued by culture. This theory subverts the construction concept of traditional gender identity which can freely combine parameters of gender characteristic under the framework. And then it reshapes the norms in order to explore the cultural construction of physiological gender and analyzes the three dimensional characterizations of gender performativity connotation. The manipulation of the discourse power is the language dimension of gender performativity theory, which formulates the gender subject of generated discourse and produces the reality about gender characteristic. The ritual dimension of gender performativity is established in the process of repeating the gender normative system in the time interval of gender identity. And the drama dimension of gender performativity refers to any kind of social gender which is unstable, performing and unnatural. This paper also examines the role of "parody" in the theory of gender performativity in breaking the dualistic traditional gender system. The masculinization or feminization behavior and ideology of male or female are not expressed in terms of gender identity. It widens and diversifies the gender category to achieve the digestion of gender so that it can explore an effective way to solve the problem of gender identity. From the deconstruction of the ontology, the gender performativity theory takes gender identity as an erratic non-static state by means of recurring performativity. Gender is the performativity behavior of mobility and process and is given a cultural core in the construction and structural cycle, which provides a new approach and multiple perspectives for identity cognition construction.

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