gender performativity

gender

performativity

Judith Butler

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is the idea that gender is the effect of reiterated acting, one that produces the effect of a static or normal gender while obscuring the contradiction and instability of any single person's gender act.

Butler characterizes gender as the effect of reiterated acting, one that produces the effect of a static or normal gender while obscuring the contradiction and instability of any single person's gender act. This effect produces what we can consider to be 'true gender,' a narrative that is sustained by 'the tacit collective agreement to perform, produce, and sustain discrete and polar genders as cultural fictions is obscured by the credibility of those productions and the punishments that attend not agreeing to believe in them.'[1]. (Butler 1990) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender performativity)

gender performativity, n.Definitions

gender performativity