Please answer the question below using your Foucault and Butler readings. Your response must be 3 pages double –spaced.
• Discuss how you came to know your gender and sexuality in the context you were raised. As a black first generation West African- Canadian Female
• Describe the regulatory discourses that might have shaped your understanding of sexuality and gender.
• From everything you have learned so far from reading Butler and Foucault, would you say that gender and sexuality can be constructed and dismantled at will? Explain.
Instructions that MUST be followed.
• You should use between 2 -3 quotes to support your discussion. Please cite in either MLA, APA or Chicago-Style.
Readings:
Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction. New York: Vintage Books, 1990. Chp 1-78.
Butler Judith, Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire. In her Gender Trouble. Routledge 1990. 1-46 http://go.utlib.ca/cat/7929212. Please download and read chapter.