Critical Analysis: Gender Trouble, Feminism, and Identity Subversion

This essay presents a critical reading of Judith Butler's 'Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity,' focusing on the relationship between sexual harassment, heterosexual relationships, and the rise of feminism. The author identifies a key sentence highlighting the regulation imposed by heterosexual subordination and analyzes how it encapsulates Butler's broader argument about gender performativity and the societal construction of gender and sexuality. The essay reflects on how this understanding has changed the author's perspective on gender identity and the challenges faced by lesbian and gay individuals, concluding that sexual harassment is a significant factor in the development of feminist thought.

Staged critical reading
and writing essay

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Main Body.......................................................................................................................................1
Step 1: Choose one of the extracts.........................................................................................1
Step 2. Identify the most significant sentence in your chosen extract....................................1
Step 3. Write a short paragraph..............................................................................................1
Step 4: Paragraph situating the sentence within the authors broader argument and justifying
why it encapsulates this argument..........................................................................................1
Step 5. The sentence and the broader argument it contains changed the way about a particular
topic........................................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

INTRODUCTION
Reading and exploring of text and idea plays a vital role in developing improved
understanding and thinking level. Current project is focusing on effectively designing and
engaging into a close reading of a text to develop improved ideas and thinking.
Main Body
Step 1: Choose one of the extracts
From the given three extracts selection of the: “Gender Trouble Feminism and the
Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler”.
The reason and justification behind choosing this extract is based on the fact that it
provides an efficient information about the concept of the feminism, women's studies, and
lesbian and gay studies that forms a vital part of society.
Step 2. Identify the most significant sentence in your chosen extract
The most significant sentence in the chosen extract is “Whereas MacKinnon offers a
powerful critique of sexual harassment, she institutes a regulation of another kind: to have a
gender means to have entered already into a heterosexual relationship of subordination”.
Step 3. Write a short paragraph
The best quotation for the selected sentence would be: Sexual harassment and heterosexual
relationship. The current sentence is most significant sentence in the article as this sentence
comprises elements of whole article focusing on rise of feminising due to high level of sexual
harassment in the society along with facilitating an efficient comment on heterosexual
relationship of subordination. The current sentence has changed by way of thinking as come to
understand that gender is the base for entering in a heterosexual relationship of subordination
where a male is attracted towards a female and females are interested in having relationship with
the male which sometimes leads to sexual harassment where male likes to dominate and
supervise females.
Step 4: Paragraph situating the sentence within the authors broader argument and justifying why
it encapsulates this argument
The current sentence is effectively situating within the authors border argument that is
based on Feminism and Supervision of the Identity as it reflects and provide information about
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the Sexual harassment that is taken as main reason and cause for rise of feminism after which
women also started to raise their voice against harassment. In the present paragraph the Judith
Butler has identified and reflects about the unsettling problem of the heart that lead creation of
the concept and idea of the feminism. It has been reflected and supported by the author in the
current article that the desire of the society of splitting the gender into the two distinct hetero
normative category which consists of male and female is the problematic thing which gives rise
to many issues and challenges in the society. Further, the current sentence and paragraph also
arises that the gender is not something one but it is rather does or performs that is not tend to be
based on some inner truth but it usually reflects and presents the repeated gender performance.
Apart from this, the Judith Butler also made effort to distinguish between the concept of gender
and sexuality from which one is based in biological aspects while other is created by the society.
Thus, selection of the current sentence justifies the encapsulates of authors through reflecting and
arguing that sexual harassment is the created due to the heterosexual relationship of
subordination which also creates and leads to many gender troubles and issues in society related
with the feminism, lesbian and gay.
Step 5. The sentence and the broader argument it contains changed the way about a particular
topic.
The current sentence that is tend to provide information about the concept of sexual
harassment and heterosexual relationship of subordination plays a vital role in changing my
thinking about the topic of Gender Trouble Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. It has been
understood by me that the sexual harassment of females by the men is the main resin for the rise
of concept of feminism after which women started raising their voice against sexual harassment
and other gender trouble. Further, it has been also understood and analysed by me that the
heterosexual relationship which comprise of men liking towards women and vice versa set out
the base for gender discrimination and also leads to many troubles faced by Lesbian and gay
based on their sexuality and gender.
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CONCLUSION
On the basis of above assignment, a conclusion can be made that sexual harassment is the
main reason behind the concept of feminism. Further, it has been also summarised that gender is
related with the heterosexual relationship of subordination where men tend to like women and
women tend to like men.
REFERENCES
Books and journal
Matthusen, A. (2021). Live from Cypress! Staging an Othello Talk Show. English
Journal, 110(3), 110-112.
Tadeo, C. (2021). Dancing the World Smaller: Staging Globalism in Mid-Century America. By
Rebekah J. Kowal. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020; 282 pp.; illustrations. 35.00
paper, e-book available. TDR, 65(2), 187-189.
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