“When I was twelve, I was interviewed by a doctoral candidate in education and asked what I wanted to be when I grew up.

Her works, thoughts and writings have influenced literary theory, ethics, queer, fields of third-wave feminist, and philosophy. Judith Butler. “The effort to identify the enemy as singular in form is a reverse-discourse that uncritically mimics the strategy of the oppressor instead of offering a different set of terms.”
I said that I either wanted to be a philosopher or a clown, and I understood then, I think, that much depended on whether or not I found the world worth philosophizing about, and what the price of seriousness might be.” This formulation moves the conception of gender off the ground of a substantial model of identity to one that requires a conception of gender as a constituted social temporality.” Butler weaves together the body as historic and the body as a site of performative – she argues that the body exists as “a materiality that bears [dramatic] meaning”, and also is the mode through which that meaning (which is tied to a historical situation) is created, done, performed, and reproduced. “Learning the rules that govern intelligible speech is an inculcation into normalized language, where the price of not conforming is the loss of intelligibility itself.” “Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive?” To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. “That the power regimes of heterosexism and phallogocentrism seek to augment themselves through a constant repetition of their logic, their metaphysic, and their naturalized ontologies does not imply that repetition itself ought to be stopped—as if it could be. “As a result, gender is not to culture as sex is to nature; gender is.

“The misapprehension about gender performativity is this: that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a 'one' who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today.” “There is no reason to assume that gender also ought to remain as two. Austin argues there are certain kinds of speech acts (or ways of speaking) that are special. It’s fantastic and beautifully written.Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.A Summary of Judith Butler’s “Performative Acts and Gender Constitution” If this seems … The presumption of a binary gender system implicitly retains the belief in a mimetic relation of gender to sex whereby gender mirrors sex or is otherwise restricted by it.” In the second paragraph of her introduction, Judith Butler summarizes her argument of performativity and gender. It becomes a question for ethics, I think, not only when we ask the personal question, what makes my own life bearable, but when we ask, from a position of power, and from the point of view of distributive justice, what makes, or ought to make, the lives of others bearable? In the paragraph immediately following, Butler makes two more crucial points in her argument. But perhaps to counter that tendency it is necessary to ask both the question of life and the question of the human, and not to let them fully collapse into one another.”

“...gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself...what they imitate is a phantasmic ideal of heterosexual identity...gay identities work neither to copy nor emulate heterosexuality, but rather, to expose heterosexuality as an incessant and panicked imitation of its own naturalized idealization. There is always a risk of anthropocentrism here if one assumes that the distinctively human life is valuable--or most valuable--or is the only way to think the problem of value. This formulation moves the conception of gender off the ground of a substantial model of identity to one that requires a conception of gender as a constituted social temporality.” John L. Austin begründet diese performativen Äußerungen im Unterschied zu den konstativen Äußerungen, welche einen Zustand beschreiben. “L'incapacité à reconnaître les processus culturels spécifiques de l'oppression de genre elle-même n'est-elle pas une forme d'impérialisme épistémologique?” “El “sexo”, la categoría, obliga al “sexo”, la configuración social de los cuerpos, a través de lo que Wittig denomina un contrato forzoso. She uses the work of anthropologist Victor Turner to explain that “social action requires a performance which is repeated”.

When we lose some of these ties by which we are constituted, we do not know who we are or what to do. “a phenomenon that gave rise to my first critical insight into the subtle ruse of power: the prevailing law threatened one with trouble, all to keep one out of trouble. Zoom through the quotes and sayings by Judith Butler. “I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I do not propose a return to a notion of the phallus as the third term in any and all relations of desire.” Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. “If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that heterosexuality issues from a disappointed homosexuality?” also the discursive/cultural … These repetitions result in what Butler calls a… Judith Butlers Konzept der Gender- Performativtät. Take a look at the famous, inspiring, motivating and thought-provoking quotes and thoughts by Judith Butler. “The misapprehension about gender performativity is this: that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a 'one' who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation …