Women in Sport- 2

David Gauntlett:

  • The idea that the media provide us with ‘tools’ or resources that we use to construct our identities
  • The idea that whilst in the past the media tended to convey singular, straightforward messages about ideal types of male and female identities, the media today offer us a more diverse range of stars, icons and characters from whom we may pick and mix different ideas

Judith Butler:

  • The idea that identity is performatively constructed by the very ‘expressions’ that are said to be its results (it is manufactured through a set of acts)
  • The idea that there is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender
  • The idea that performativity is not a singular act, but a repetition and a ritual
  • She argues that, 'gender roles are contracted by society'
  • Masculinity and femininity are not inherent
  • Butler thinks that we should have a choice of what we do, without people looking differently of you

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