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Contemporary United States is awash in media images working in concert to create and sustain a static, heternormative view of the dyadic structure of gender in which only masculine and feminine identities achieve mainstream acknowledgement and, thus, intelligibility. In order to dismantle this rather limited model of the gendered body, theorists such as Judith Butler have endeavoured to reconsider the gender binary by examining the ways in which the gendered body has been and is currently manufactured by our mediated culture. While in the process of critiquing the socially constructed concept of gender, Butler often becomes mired in debates on the implication of reality within those social constructions as well as the source of “originality” as an idea.
Publisher: Academia.edu
Year of Publication: 2010
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