Performing Gender

Pornography: 
The Epitome of Sexuality

Subjectivity and Gender-Identity in Cyberspace

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Reflections on Our Wounded Identities in Law

Sexual Orientation Discrimination in Private Employment

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To Rescue or Research?:What’s a Radical Queer Academic to Do?   
 by: Shannon Wyss

I once heard an allegorical tale that goes something like this: There are two villages on the banks of a river. One day, the villagers downstream notice a baby floating in the water. Not surprisingly, they rescue the infant. The next day, two more babies float down the river. Again, the villagers take the babies out of the water. Over the ensuing days, more and more babies come floating by and, eventually, everyone in the village is involved in baby-rescue. The villagers know that they need...(full article)

To Make a Dragon Move  
by: Raina Lenney

In conflict with existing stereotypes surrounding the woman, the body, and the perpetual struggle with food, it seems that this paper must be written again and again.  For, although this paper does not disavow the importance of education concerning all three theories concerning the evolution of eating disorders, I must promote the necessity of investigating the surrounding culture.  It is there, at the site of struggle that exists between men and women, and the war that is fought through a woman’s body, that this society has the most potential to transcend.  
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Performing Gender (Theory):
Feminism, Postmodernism, and Judith Butler
by: Myra Remigio

How does feminism function in the postmodern condition?  How do feminist theorists with political agendas negotiate a theoretical/ social framework that has been categorized as apolitical?  Many books and articles have been devoted to this subject: for example, in her introduction to Feminist Contentions:  A Philosophical Exchange, Linda Nicholson notes that in order to compare the two categories, each category must be defined.  In her essay “Feminism and Postmodernism:  An Uneasy Alliance,” (the opening essay of Feminist Contentions), Seyla Benhabib links the two movements together “as categories of the present,” and frames them as oppositional rather than complementary (full article)

Pornography: The Epitome of Sexuality 
 by: Meredith A. Madden

As a feminist, I often try to choose my battles.  In realizing that I do not possess the power to fight all sources of female oppression, I have tried to pick the few that impassion me the most, and have concentrated the majority of my efforts on overcoming these.  But sometimes, when you are not looking, a battle can pick you.   (full article)

Holy Trouble
by: Miranda Morris

They are there to worship God, in their nice clothing, ready to sing hymns and experience their inclusiveness in a religious group.  The preacher begins to preach and bursts of laughter swell up from the audience.  Someone stands up and begins to swagger around, giggling, and twitching.  Peals of laughter begin to spread through the whole place until the preacher’s words are totally obscured in the noise.  Then the preacher begins laughing, and the music begins to play…(full article)

Subjectivity and Gender-Identity in Cyberspace
by: Deanna Weber

Cyberfeminism is the "new" feminist branch to specialize specifically in this, the newest focus on women in this new virtual reality.I would propose that women could attain ownership over their own space, and as much of it as they want—cyberspace is infinite and women are already woven into its creation and existence. (full article)

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