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Instead, in her groundbreaking book, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990), Butler claims that gender roles are taught and learned—often unwittingly, through socialization—as sets of actions, behaviors, manners, and expectations, and people perform those roles accordingly. Gender, for Butler, is a set of things a person doe

Judith Butler nos ensinou a pensar na “feminização” como mecanismo social.

body shame was a tool of White supremacist, capitalist patriarchy.

Students tend to latch onto her idea of “gender performativity”, because there is a sense in which it is true. Most people have had the experience of playing up their masculinity or femininity in order to conform to sex stereotypes. There is certainly a basic arbitrariness to some of the visible signals of sexual difference in terms of hairstyles a

Now, Butler is not denying that biological sex differences exist at all. Rather, she is arguing that any categorization or meaning we ascribe to those differences is a matter of power, not of truth. There’s no good reason, in her view, for seeing those differences as any more significant than differences of hair or eye color. The body, for her, exi

The personal is theoretical.

hegemonic

For Butler, that statement is a foundational premise. Nothing is natural.