Judith Butler
American · 1956–
American philosopher and gender theorist whose concept of gender performativity transformed feminist and queer theory.
Wikipedia ↗“There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results.”
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Gender Trouble ↗ (1990)
“We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.”
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Undoing Gender ↗ (2004)