Judith Butler's Gender Trouble: Why Gender Is a Performance
Judith Butler argued that gender isn't something you are — it's something you do. In Gender Trouble, Butler challenged the assumption that biological sex determines gender, proposing instead that gender is performative: created through repeated acts that produce the illusion of a stable identity.
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Topics covered:
• What is gender performativity?
• Butler's critique of the sex/gender distinction
• The heterosexual matrix
• Drag, subversion, and parody
• Why Gender Trouble changed feminist and queer theory
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