Are norms necessary for group-based identities or are they more oppressive than constructive?
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Various authors this semester have argued that norms result in Othering relationships, which oppress individuals into either conforming to them, or maltreat those who deviate from them.
Yet, multiple authors also discuss how norms are necessary because they establish commonalities within an identity and the boundaries for an identity to be legible.
In your view, are norms necessary for group-based identities or are they more oppressive than constructive?
Focusing on ONE group-based identity, argue whether norms are necessary for its existence and at what point, if any, norms become more oppressive than facilitating to the identity.
Your essay should incorporate and cite 4-7 of the course texts. At least TWO of the 4-7 sources must include: Puar’s The Right to Maim, Puar’s Terrorist Assemblages, Siebers’s Disability Theory, Butler’s Bodies That Matter, Butler’s interview article, Driskill’s Doubleweaving, Cohen’s Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens, Ferguson’s Trump is a Feminist, Crenshaw’s Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex, Lorde’s Age, Race, Class, and Sex, Warner’s The Trouble With Normal, or Cacho’s Social Death.
– the details of the page numbers of each of these readings is in the syllabus attached, please use at least two of the ones above and then any other of the sources in the syllabus
– if you need any help accessing any of these readings please contact me (
Papers should be approximately 2000 words. Any submissions less than 1900 words or more than 2100 words will be penalized 10% (and 10% for every further 100 words below or above the word count range).
