Judith Butler This Sex Which Is Not One Sparknotes

The one-drop rule was a law that was enforced in the 20th century that said that any person who had a family member who was of Black ancestry is then considered Black. This rule originated over the idea that if you had just one drop of Black blood then you were Black and therefore were still permitted to the various restrictions and discrimination which were imposed on Black people. In the minds of these individuals, Blackness was “contagious”. That being said, the one-drop rule was utilized to justify slavery by putting down a boundary to determine who was enslaved and who wasn’t. It was also used to maintain some degree of white supremacy during that time. According to Loic Wacquant from his reading “From Slavery to Mass Incarceration”, the

She suggests that women need to reclaim their own sexuality and create a new “language” to describe it, not including anything male wise. In “Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions” from Gender Trouble, Judith Butler challenges the idea that gender is not just an aspect of an individual, but rather an aspect performed by an individual. Butler opens up new possibilities for the execution of gender through which she explains that it is inscribed into our bodies through various practices, such as our clothing, makeup, or any forms of body modifications. Butler believes that gender is a concept that is continually being created and destroyed by both social interactions and cultural standards. Butler's theories have influenced how society today thinks about gender and sexuality. Steve Seidman's "Gay Marriage" explores the relationship between gender roles and political rights, particularly by explaining the gay marraige movement. Seidman argues that the fight for gay marriage is not just about overall acknowledgment of same-sex relationships but also about the changing social dynamics of marriage and the deemed threats to traditional gender roles and power structures within it. This opposition originates from those traditional and typical ideas of marriage which

Throughout these scopic regimes, the gaze played an important role in shaping our understanding of the world and our place in it. It was used to create knowledge, emotions, and to represent the reality within art and literature. In Michel Foucault's "Panopticism," from Discipline and Punish, the gaze is used as a symbol of power and surveillance. The panopticon was a prison design by Jeremy Bentham through which every prison cell was visible from the central guard tower whereas the prisoners were constantly visible to the guards, but the guards were invisible to the prisoners. Foucault argued that panopticon represents a shift in the forms of punishment and power from the disciplinary and public displays of authority such as whippings or stoning. This was deemed as a sort of sovereign power that reigned over the prisoners under surveillance. Guy Debord's "Separation Perfected," from The Society of the Spectacle, explains that the spectacle is a criticism of our typical society and its focus on consumerism, individuality, and the product of human experiences. The word “spectacle” refers to a system of both social and cultural aspects, which has placed an image and representation that have come to dominate everyday life concepts. He