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39 quotes by Judith Butler

Part of a series on Feminist philosophy Major works A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) The Subjection of Women (1869) The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884) The Second Sex (1949) The Feminine Mystique (1963) The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution (1970) The Creation of Patriarchy (1986) Gender Trouble (1990) Major theorists Mary Wollstonecraft Simone de Beauvoir Betty Friedan...
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Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.

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To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act... →

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We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us... →

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There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are... →

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It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the... →

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When we say gender is performed, we usually mean that we've taken on a role or we're acting in some way and that our acting or our role... →

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There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.

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Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his... →

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You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.

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When one set of Jews labels another set of Jews 'anti-Semitic,' they are trying to monopolize the right to speak in the name of the Jews. So... →

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Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A... →

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Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is... →

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The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which... →

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