Rhett Butler

Judith Butler argues in Performative Acts and Gender Constitution that gender is created by the act of performance and is constructed through the body. She states “gender identity is a performative accomplishment compelled by social sanction and taboo” (Butler 416).The concept of the display of gender through the act of performance is perpetuated within the play Latins in La-La Land by Migdalia Cruz specifically through the characters Sid/Rita and Lorenzo. Both of these characters put on gender and

through a rough patch with the prohibition but it seemed like things were getting worse. The Scopes Trial brought a lot of attention to Dayton, Tennessee, where substitute biology teacher, John Scopes, was accused of teaching evolution (Scopes). The Butler Act was a law “prohibiting public school teachers from denying the Biblical account of man’s origin” (Scopes). On May 5, 1925, John Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution and was given a $1,000 fine. Later, the verdict was overturned (Scopes)

This strong opposition against Evolution makes Tennessee an interesting battleground for Creationism and Evolution. The first step of the battle was for the Butler Act to find its opponent. What ended up happening was something that was unknown to the public; Leaders from Dayton, a small town in Tennessee, were conspiring to violate the Butler Act. “Civil leaders of Dayton saw an opportunity to benefit the town by increasing its visibility through publicity” (Singham, 2009, p. 23). The idea was first

Second Skins: The Body Narratives of Transsexuality – Jay Prosser Prosser (1998) enters the gender-identity conversation with a rather counter-intuitive project. At a time when poststructuralism is busily deconstructing the sex/gender linkage in ways that transcend the materiality of the subject, Prosser wants to bring the “ontological” trans body back into the dialogue by charting the arc of the changing body within transgender narratives. Only by mapping these transitions in this frame can he describe

CHAPTHER ONE INTRODUCTION Joanna Russ’s The Female Man mainly represents how its central characters, Jeannine, Joanna, Janet and Jael, affected by society when they playing gender roles. In this chapter there are three main sections. The first section mentions the life of the author, Joanna Russ, the second section is about the summary of The Female Man and the third section outlines my research questions under the name of Research hypothesis. 1.1 Joanna Russ Joanna Russ was born February

sex, gender, and desire… —— Judith Butler, Gender Trouble I. Drag: From Eddie to Eudoxia In the first part of the novel, Eddie appears in the identity of Eudoxia Vatatzes, living in France with her aged Greek husband Angelos Vatatzes. White doesn’t

During the election year of 1920, America wanted to relax and enjoy winning the war and American life, so people rallied behind Warren G. Harding of Ohio who promised to restore “normalcy” to the country. Though seen as a good man, he was corrupt, did not have strong principles, and scandals arose in his 3rd year of presidency. In 1923, he died of food poisoning while making a trip to the west coast to give speeches. Harding’s vice president, Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts, took over and was very

foundation sponsors events and programs throughout the year and houses many groups, organizations, and businesses that highlight the importance of preserving German heritage though healthy bodies and the arts and humanities. The Atheaeum is also house to the Rathskeller Restaurant, which is the oldest restaurant in Indianapolis. Other tenants include the American Cabaret Theater, the Indiana German Heritage Society, a Young Actors Theatre, and even a YMCA. The Athenaeum also hosts a German Fest annually

Postmodern fragmentation of gender According to Lee (1999), postmodern theories abandon modernist singular identities for a fragmented version of history, where individuals are unstable, constantly moving objects. Post-structuralist discourse feminists have dramatically altered views of gender and sex, creating a distinctly new paradigm for the concept of womanhood, and providing 'a comprehensive demolition job on Western orthodoxies' (Sheehan, 2004, p.21). In his way, identity is not only socially

prospective bill. Night after night, Sunday’s audiences grew until more than two-hundred thousand people heard him preach against the evils of evolution. The bill, known as the Butler Act, was officially passed on March 21, 1925, just 3 months after its proposal. Just as state legislators suspected, the ink had hardly dried on the Butler Act before its first challenger emerged. George Rappleyea, a modernist methodist who was against the new regulation, urged people to rebel against the law in order to