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Who Conceptualized Gender As A Performance?

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Who Conceptualized Gender As A Performance? The idea of gender as performance was popularized by American poststructuralist philosopher Judith Butler. Such a concept goes against the predominant philosophical framework established since the 1970s which assumes a sex/gender divide, where gender would be a cultural construct built upon a biological sex. Who came up with gender

What Does It Mean To Say Gender Is Performative?

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What Does It Mean To Say Gender Is Performative? To say that gender is performative is simply to say that how we understand gender, and how we position ourselves as gendered or sexual beings in relation to others is achieved through the repetition and enactment of these activities. What does it mean to say that