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2 The Theoretical Game Changer:
Queer Theory and Judith Butler

3 Title and Content Layout with List
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4 What is Queer Theory?: A Refresher
Queer theory is a field of post-structuralist critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of queer studies and women's studies.  Queer theory includes both queer readings of texts and the theorization of 'queerness' itself.

5 Who is Judith Butler? Judith Butler is an American philosopher and gender theorist whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics and the fields of feminist, queer and literary theory. She was born …

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7 Judith Butler + Queer Theory
Judith Butler contends that gender is performative . . . Using Queer Theory, Butler . . .

8 Queer Theory + Butler: A Video Clip
Judith Butler: Your Behavior Creates Your Gender 3:00 minutes Dc

9 Life Experiences + Understandings
Judith Butler learned at an early age . . .

10 How Has Butler's Research Changed Our Understandings?
Judith Butler research has asserted that . . .

11 Gender Performativity
As noted, “the misapprehension about gender performativity is this: that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a 'one' who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today” (Butler 118). 

12 Gender Performativity
As Judith Butler states, “the misapprehension about gender performativity is this: that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a 'one' who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today” (118).

13 What Societal Changes Has Butler Proposed For Our Society?
The change our society, Butler posits that we need to . . .

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15 Side Note: Works Cited Source Entry (on a separate sheet of paper)
Butler, Judith. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex.” Routledge, 1993.

16 Side Note: Works Cited Source Entry (on a separate sheet of paper)
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