This real-life person’s monologue is spoken by a female and then a male actor in Caryl Churchill’s play A Mouthful of Birds. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this French intersex person, whose memoirs were published by Auguste Ambroise Tardieu. Michel Foucault (“mee-shell foo-COH”) analyzed this person’s life experience in a 1980 book.
ANSWER: Herculine Barbin [accept Abel Barbin]
[10e] Foucault came across Herculine Barbin’s memoirs while doing research for a book on the “History” of this concept. Heteronormativity involves society viewing one of these things as a default.
ANSWER: sexuality [accept sexual orientations; prompt on “being straight” or any other sexuality with “What broader concept is that part of?”]
[10m] Foucault’s analysis of Herculine Barbin was criticized for contradicting his own “repressive hypothesis” according to this Judith Butler book, which argues that the title concept is performative.
ANSWER: Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
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