Gender Trouble

Butler, J. (1990). Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Routledge.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1990

Link

https://www.routledge.com/Gender-Trouble-Feminism-and-the-Subversion-of-Identity/Butler/p/book/9780415389556

Cited from

sociology_anthropology, speech_language_pathology

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Cultural Hegemony
  • … (1977) named "counter-hegemony." Contemporary theorists extend the concept: Stuart Hall on media encoding/decoding (Hall, 1980), Foucault's related but distinct concept of discursive power (Foucault, 1980), Raymond Williams on "structures of feeling," feminist theorists on patriarchy as hegemonic (Butler, 1990),

    This sourceFoundational account of gender performativity: identity as the sedimented effect of reiterated performatives.

• Performativity
  • Sociology and identity (non-obvious): Butler's (1990) account treats gender not as the expression of a prior essence but as constituted through the repeated, stylized performance of gendered acts; identity is the sedimented effect of reiterated performatives rather than their cause.

    This sourceFoundational account of gender performativity: identity is constituted through the repeated, stylized performance of gendered acts and is the sedimented effect of reiterated performatives rather than the expression of a prior essence.

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