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In your essay, join this debate, and discuss the extent to which Wilder’s film subverts or reinforces heteronormativity. Use Butler’s theoretical concepts and try to draw clear connections between her gender theories and the film.
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Judith Butler and Terrell Carver stand on opposing sides in relation to what gender and sex is, to some extents, both are correct. Butler, in all her works believes that gender is a human construction that emanate from sex that the society puts or instills in people. She believes that the society makes people behave the way they do in their attempts to make their gender identity. In this respect, Butler’s theoretical perspectives are valid because the society has made some social constructions that limit people from becoming what they really want to be. In reality, some people are in the wrong bodies. Sex change surgeries have increased today. It is until recently that some formal institutions like the army allowed recruits not to be discriminated due their sexual orientations. Though Carver may not agree with Butler on this, people can be forced by the society to be in attires that they do not feel comfortable in....