podcast #3

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Article 1 : Padron, Melissa. “Gender Theory vs. Pragmatism: A Point of Diversion between Judith Butler’s Gender Performativity and the Psychosocial Limitations of Gender Construction.” Inquiries Journal, Inquiries Journal, 1 Apr. 2021, http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1897/gender-theory-vs-pragmatism-a-point-of-diversion-between-judith-butlers-gender-performativity-and-the-psychosocial-limitations-of-gender-construction.
Annotated Bibliography: For my annotated Bibliography I focused on “Judith Butler’s Gender Performativity” I found it interesting due to her approach to gender. She believes as though gender is socially constructed. She related it to a performance. In the article it states, “Gender is, thus, a construction that regularly conceals its genesis.” (Butler 522) Pushing the idea of if an actor continues a performance and the audience believes the actor will continue the same act. All in all this relates to the book my group and I are reading in class called “The Color Purple.” In the Color Purple gender roles play a huge part in the telling of the story. You see Celie, the main character, struggle with her identity and even her sexuality. In this book men have the upper hand but all the women Celie is surrounded by are strong and resilient which motivates her to want to fight. She is always scared due to the unknown consequence of her disobeying her husband.

Article 2: Heller, Zoë. “How Toxic Is Masculinity?” The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/08/how-toxic-is-masculinity. Annotated Bibliography: I found this article very different from the normal discussions about feminism. This article talked about the reverse effect of the male-female social change. It stated that we have outnumbered men in the work industry; it seems like more women work nowadays. We are starting to see gender change in equality. I relate this to our book because this kind of reminds me of the character Sofia. Sofa is a strong minded independent woman. We are starting to see the effects of Sofas mindset on the current society and it’s actually astonishing the impact that women have in our society.

Article 3: Horowitz, J. M., & Igielnik, R. (2021, June 25). A Century After Women Gained the Right To Vote, Majority of Americans See Work To Do on Gender Equality. Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project. https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/07/07/a-century-after-women-gained-the-right-to-vote-majority-of-americans-see-work-to-do-on-gender-equality/

Annotated Bibliography: This article focuses on women having the right to vote after a century. I found this article very interesting because it talks about gender equality between men and women. One of the things they mentioned in the article was that men have been the only gender to vote in the past centuries or so. They believed that women couldn’t be counted on to vote responsibly. Women fought for basically 100 years. They made speeches, signed petitions, and argued continuously that women, just like men, deserved equal rights and the responsibilities of citizenship. This connects to the book The Color Purple in a way because the character Nettie believed women should have the same learning opportunities as men. In Olinka, they believed the opposite. Women were only good for doing chores and other household things. They were not able to be educated because that isn’t a women’s job or what they’re meant to do. Nettie fought hard for the girls in Olinka to be able to learn the same way the boys were learning as well.

Article 4: Littlefield, A. (2022, September 28). How Does Reproductive Justice Win? The New Republic. https://newrepublic.com/article/167399/how-does-reproductive-justice-sex-education-universal-childcare-food-security-win

Annotated Bibliography: This article focuses on the new abortion law that was being more restrictive. There was a group of African American activists that were from a range of reproductive rights and justice organizations that was located in Texas. There was a new restrictive abortion law. This became an issue because there were some organizations where they were sending desperate messages from the frantic Texans. Most of those people were African American and there were plenty of them who weren’t able to afford to travel out of state or even take off from work to get an abortion.