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| 1. McIntosh, Dawn Marie. "Deconstructing Hillary Rodham Clinton: A PostFeminist Perception of Rodham’s Gender Performance Portrayals" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Women's Studies Association, TBA, St. Charles, IL, Pheasant Run, Jun 28, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-11-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p168544_index.html>Publication Type: Poster
Abstract: Although extreme traditional gender expectations are decreasing, there still exists a hierarchy that expects certain “sexes” to enact particular gender performances, and those that challenge these roles receive punishment. A particular example of this resonates in an artifact that pictures Hillary Rodham’s face on a popular movie icon Rambo. This essay utilizes postmodern feminism (Derrida,1967;Butler,1988;1990;1992;1993) as a lens to deconstruct two possible interpretations of the picture. The dominant reading of the text perpetuates binary gender norms, further subjecting “women” to oppression; whereas the resistant reading traces gender and deconstructs the binary hierarchies that exist within this patriarchal society. |
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