Butler

Antigone’s Claim

A Heroine … for

Our

Time?...

“Hostility to theory usually means an opposition to other people's theories and an oblivion of one’s own.”

(Eagleton

Introduction to Theory

viii)

Agenda  Oral Reports  “Do”s and “Don’t”s     Recap and Update  Definitions, Applications

Antigone’s Claim

 Families (a quote)

Antigone’s Claim

 Analysis Take Away… 

Antigone

on Butler, on Sexuality/Gender 4/30/2020

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Oral Reports

“Do”s and “Don’t”s

Oral Report “Do”s…  Content  organize  summarize  clarify  critique  prompt  Presentation  pace  modulate  rehearse 4/30/2020  Outline/PowerPoint  frame  structure  SIMPLIFY!

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Outline/PowerPoint Necessities  Title slide  title  date  presenters  Content / illustrative slides  Bibliography 4/30/2020

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Something Wrong?...

 An oral report should at all costs seek to avoid serving the function of content delivery  Complete sentences on screen will not be read by audience — they deaden the effect  Strive for simple transitions  Remember: The oral spiel is the thing  umm, uhhh…..

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Recap and Update

Definitions, Applications

Your turn: What is …   

Sexuality?…

 traits sex

not

specific to biological sex

not

same as sexuality choice (free will) sexual preference     chemical makeup in brain  affects feelings with respect to sexual attraction performative dimension?

social construction   sexuality as created by society sexuality in response mindset  what it means, symbolic dimension can be a combo (bio/social)

Gender?…

 male v female   biological sex role, self-presentation   blur lines non biological anatomy…    psychol.

a

mindset

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Antigone’s Claim

Families (a quote)

“For a woman who is a single mother and has her child without a man, is the father still there, a spectral ‘position’ or ‘place” that remains unfilled?” (Butler

Antigone’s Claim

69)

Quote — Responses…  depends on society and culture   father a social construction father figure doesn’t need to be there  not an imperative  […] 4/30/2020

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Antigone’s Claim

Analysis

Contents 1.

2.

3.

 Antigone’s Claim (1 ff.) sets up different interpretations  Unwritten Laws, Aberrant Traditions (27 ff.) talks about language “performs”  Hegel’s, Lacan’s interpretations – a critique  Promiscuous Obedience (57 ff.) B’s reflections in relation to cont. problems

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Structure, Argument  Problem(s) / issue(s) / scope  ant’s role in other interpretations  Argumentation  that play offers insight into contemp issues  explores how society

reacts

transgression to  past treatments fail to recognize prepolitical aspect  Conclusions

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Take Away…

Antigone

on Butler, on Sexuality/Gender

Questions  Does play validate sexuality/gender as…  essence?

 social construction?

 Does play validate view of family as…  socially embedded symbol?

 morally absolute?

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