| Summary: | This thesis examines identity building of lesbian women through their act
of performativity. Performativity is commonly understood as the declarations that
create new facts. Women are transformed into object of tradition in order to
produced the patriarchal social order and produce gender identity. Science
fiction�s possibility exists because of its novelty in conceptual exploration of �a
new world�. Joanna Russ made an argument that the forms of symbolic
contingency found in the genre provided a productive space for the critique of
patriarchal heterosexuality.
Joanna Russ' essays written around the period of production and
publication of The Female Man show a preoccupation with generic structure of
science fiction. Russ wrote essays that explored the radical possibilities that
existed in the genre, along with the very real limitations in its execution. The
Female Man show how the utopian world comes in to the world of lesbian. By
utopia future, people create a reformulation of law for their life. This law makes
possibility to change the patriarchal world become more acceptable.
By the theory of Judith Butler, the writer of this thesis will apply to Joanna
Russ' the female man. This thesis described that Joanna escapes from the
hegemony of American Society concerned with her gender identity because she
wants her lesbian identity being recognized. In order to earn acknowledgment
about her lesbian identity Joanna Russ indicates performativity repeatedly. Joanna
represented utopia and lesbian community aims to create her identity existence.
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