Gender Stereotype: Elegance
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- You are in a dress today, is it something special?
- No. Not really. Actually, I've been told as a woman I should be elegant.
- Butler highlighted the ‘radical discontinuity’ that plagues sexes when they are faced with socially constructed genders. This is to say that by the way of socialising male and female differently, they are taught to become men and women respectively, by adopting qualities attributed to the sex in question by society that could otherwise be possessed by any sex.
- This is uncannily reminiscent of Judith Butler’s observations on the performativity of gender which is in colossal resonance with Simone de Beauvoir’s popular statement: ‘One is not born, but rather becomes a woman'.
- What do you mean?
- This is further elucidated by Margaret Mead’s demonstration of how notions of masculinity and femineity as well as the characteristics associated with them vary in the context of different cultures, thereby failing to establish a compelling correlation between the sexes and the possession of certain, typically gender-based, qualities.
- As understood by Nivedita Menon “it is child-rearing practices which try toestablish and perpetuate certain differences between the sexes. That is, from childhood, boys and girls are trained in appropriate, gender-specific forms of behaviour, play,dress and so on. This training is continuous and most of the time, subtle…”
- So, you're saying the expectation and norms of elegance and poise can be understood as one of the many social impositions and restrictions that endeavour to 'forcibly materialized over time' by the reiterative, repeated practices of gender performance’ to satisfy the criteria laid down by the heterosexual matrix conceptualised by Butler.
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