Performativity
March 9, 2007

We've talked about performativity throughout the course. Today we will revisit the notion of gender performance, pulling together materials from throughout the quarter.

Class Slides PDF

Readings

Cameron and Kulick Chapter 4 pp. 98-105.
Rusty Barrett's article on African American drag queens. BARRETT, RUSTY. 1994. "She is not white woman": The appropriation of white women's language by African American drag queens. Cultural Performances: Proceedings of the third Berkeley women and language conference, ed. by Mary Bucholtz, A.C. Liang, Laurel A. Sutton and Caitlin Hines, 1-14. Berkeley: Berkeley Women and Language Group.

Purely Optional:

Cameron and Kulick Chapter 5.