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Essay / Gender Trouble by Judith Butler - 1724
GenderStephen Morton, in his Gayatri Spivak, promotes the dictum of Simone de Beauvoir, which is why he emphasizes: "The category of gender identity was not determined by the biological sex of a person; rather, gender is a social construction that can be resisted through social and political struggles. cultural influence. Simone de Beauvoir discredited this vision by asserting that “We are not born a woman, we become a woman”. The concept of gender performative is at the center of Judith Butler's work, notably in Gender Trouble. In Butler's terms, the performance of gender, sex, and sexuality is within the control of society. She pinpoints the creation of the “gendered, sexual, desiring subject” in “regulatory discourses”. Butler's argument therefore concerns the role of sex in the production of natural or rational gender and sexuality. In his relationship, gender and heterosexuality are constructed as natural because the opposition of the masculine and feminine sexes is assumed to be natural in the social imagination. Both gender difference and inequality are shaped by economic, political, social and cultural factors. In the global context, these divisions of the world have formed a radical difference between economic zones characterized by extremes of wealth and poverty. Yet these equal relationships are often reproduced in underdeveloped societies where non-white women often find themselves at the bottom of the hyracial divide. Therefore, the factors that produce different forms of oppression are class, ethnocentric and racist practices, as well as heterosexism. violence.In this chapter, Mahasweta Devi's anthology of short stories entitled Breast Stories analyzes representations of violence and oppression against women in the name of gender. In her Breast Stories, Devi twice evokes female characters from ancient Hindu mythology, envisions them as subordinates in the imagined historical context, and creates a connection with the female protagonists of her short stories. As the title suggests, Breast Stories is a trilogy of short stories; it was translated and analyzed by Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak and, according to Spivak, a woman's "breast" in these stories becomes the instrument of a brutal condemnation of patriarchy. Indeed, the breast can be interpreted as the motive for violence in the three short stories “Draupadi”, “Breast-Giver” and “Behind the Bodice ».,”