Discussion “Language, gender, and sexuality”

Discussion “Language, gender, and sexuality” (75pts)

Read Cameron “Language, gender, and sexuality

Watch posted videos of Judith Butler.

Answer questions over Cameron’s “Language, gender, and sexuality”

Answer questions 1 and 2, and then either 3 or 4 (25 pts each).

Butler’s videos will be useful for Q. 2. As usual, you should be writing in your own words, quoting only when absolutely necessary. Don’t repeat my questions; just give me your answers. You should write a long paragraph for each.

(A) Question over section: (Re)Conceptualizing Gender section on pp. 483-491

1) Make clear what the dominance framework (Lakoff) and (cultural) difference framework (Tannen) had in common and explain the ways that the diversity framework differs from them both. You can refer to what you know about these approaches from earlier readings.

(B) Question over section: The Linguistic Performance of Gender Diversity on pp. 491-493. You may use Butler’s videos here too.

2a) What does it mean to say that gender is an accomplishment? “Gender is the repeated stylization of the body, a set of repeated acts within a highly rigid regulatory frame that congeal over time to produce the appearance of substance, of a ‘natural’ kind of being.” AND 2 b) How can a study of a group of high school nerd girls illustrate gender performativity?

(C) Questions over section: Gender, Sexuality and Heteronormativity on pp. 494-496

3) What is the difference in how Tannen and Eckert view same sex interaction?

4) Why is “sexuality” in the title of Cameron’s article?