[n a few double-spaced paragraphs, answer the following reading response questions based on our readings.

[n a few double-spaced paragraphs, answer the following reading response questions based on our readings.

Yuu should use specific examples from the readings to support your analysis and cite those examples according to your discipline’s guidelines. When in doubt, use MLA. There are 6 readings and one film to look at. I will provide readings, but for the film please check online sources. And be sure do the extra point.

De Beauvoir, Radicalesbians and Wittig all sought in their own ways to expand the definition of

“woman” from a biologically innate category which confers certain physical and social characteristics to one that was historically situated and socially constructed. How did Radicalesbians and Wittig build on the definition of womanhood that de Beauvoir theorized in her 1949 book The Second Sex?

Rubin’s essay lists “six ideologies of sexuality in the West that maintain a punitive social framework”.

Choose one of these ideologies and explain it, providing an example from outside Rubin’s essay. For an extra point, choose your example from Cohen’s piece on expanding queer political coalitions.

Briefly summarize why Butler uses drag as an example of her concept of gender performativity. Then give an example from Paris is Burning that you believe accords with Butler’s theory.