Essays on Gender Performativity

In this essay, I will be discussing how throughout history, literary texts have surrounded themselves with the limitations of gender as well as the transgressions of gender. Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton, in ‘The Roaring Girl’, challenge the traditional gender conventions through the character of…

The play As You like It written by William Shakespeare explores ideas of lust, love, and sexuality. It follows a multitude of characters; however one of the most significant is Rosalind, the daughter of an exiled Duke who escapes the city in order to avoid…

Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides, is a coming of age story of a Greek intersex male in the United States. The main character of the book, Cal, is an intersex male with feminine traits and a vagina. Intersex is a type of person that doesn’t fit…

In this essay I will examine how feminine performativity is shown in sport. There has always been some discrimination when you think female being involved in sport. Whether it be by what sport females are participating in or how they look and dress or even…