Exploring Gender Performativity
<p>Gender performativity is the interpretation that gender is the product of “internalized” societal values that have accumulated into hetero-normative and essentialist sets of ideals throughout history. Therefore, it is debated that gender is merely a performance of these internalized cultural standards and hence not something that is naturally assigned to a biological entity (Butler). From a psychoanalytic point of view, the conception that women are inferior to men simply because of the absence of the penis creates a certain value for the phallus (Mulvey, 1975). This is understood as the dominant aspect of the implication of a natural patriarchal order. Prominent directors in the avant-garde cinema industry, such as Pedro Almodovar (<em>Matador, All about my mother, Law of desire</em>), are known to tackle these traditional ideas of essentialism through the use of narratives, effectively blurring distinctions between male and female and challenging this ontological theory.</p>
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