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After compiling my thesis which talks about gender and sex partially, I have now come to a decision that gender is an illusion. What makes a person a woman depends on how she performs the personal traits run by society. Let's say a person is a boyish girl who have grown up with male dominance. Apart from her sex, which is entailed since she was born, her decision to create her gender is determined by the environment, or in this case is the male dominance which encircles her. This theory is perfected by Judith Butler, who comes with a new gender theory, Gender Performativity.  To say a person is a woman (not female, it is for sex), is determined by his/her performances. If she tends to do masculine performances, then unconsciously she is on her way in creating her own gender; being a man. Although it is against her sex, but that is gender. It is learnt and socially structured. No one is born with gender. So it is agreeable to say gender is an illusion.  I talk about th...

Since it is holiday already, so I have more time to gather the data and publish this article, which is entitled Gender Stereotypes and Performativity in Frozen movie . I analyzed this movie in order to complete the assignment given in Children literature class. But it turned out interesting! I focused only one theory; performativity from Judith Butler. Check out the analysis from my paper! The writer analyzes Frozen movie by focusing only one theory; performativity from Judith Butler. In order to not broaden it into some theories that may be found in the plot, the writer thinks the misconstrued-performances of the main characters, Anna and Elsa are easily seen and become vast majority start from the beginning until the very end of the movie. But it doesn’t mean other theories are forgotten. Something that the writer immediately thought about when finishing the movie was that Frozen is perhaps the queerest animated film ever produced by Disney–queer as being a theoretical practic...