Order Description
The essay requires 5 source (1 assigned reading, 3 academic sources, and one popular media article)
I already have a brief outline for this essay. I hope the writer would generally follow my ideas to produce this essay. However if the writer find it hard to write what I hope to appear in the essay, its fine too but please let me know through message.
Your paper MUST make an argument / claim based on your analysis and critical review of the media (newspaper/magazine) article and/or weblog. This means your paper must have a THESIS STATEMENT (i.e. I intend to argue X…based on A, B, C…) which you then must back up with proof/support from other academic sources
NOTE: This essay is a social scientific approach essay to sexuality. so the academic source for this essay should from social science as well.
Following is the skeleton for this essay
assigned text: Judith Butler’s Gender trouble
thesis: the society is falsely naturalizing one’s “outer” appearance and “inner” essence as a unity for regulating and upholding the heterosexual matrix. I will use the drag culture as an example to demonstrate how this is problematic and how drag culture is mocking this idea.
outline:
basically describe a bit about drag culture (quote butler in the way)
– how it dramatises appearance
– how the 3 components differ
– how these 3 components do not match up
– use real life example (media article)
discuss butler’s idea of performativity
– how drag reveals the imitative structure of gender
– discuss its definition
– how performativity makes us naturalise the idea of gender – and this is problematic
– use other academic articles about constructive nature of gender to support that
Purposes of constructing nature and how drag mocks this
– heterosexual matrix in society
– reproductive purposes
– intelligenible, coherent society
– too many different sexualities difficult to find one normative way to include all
– discuss the philosphical importance and meaning of having “norms” – can we live without norms then? what is its purpose? (for example, without norms the society will be in chaos etc…in a practical sense)
– drag mocks this constructivism through dramatising it
(try to find one more academic article that discusses only about drag culture here )
conclusion