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In the essay "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: ... ISBN 978-0-415-91587-8. Butler, Judith (1997). The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection ...
[17]: 520 Referencing John L. Austin's speech act theory, Butler argues that gender is socially constructed through acts that are performative in that they serve to define and maintain identities. This view reverses the idea that a person's identity is the source of secondary actions (speech, gestures) – instead, identity is understood as the ...
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity [1] [2] is a book by the post-structuralist gender theorist and philosopher Judith Butler in which the author argues that gender is performative, meaning that it is maintained, created or perpetuated by iterative repetitions when speaking and interacting with each other.
Playing with Fire: Queer Politics, Queer Theories is a collection of essays on queer theory and political theory from a queer perspective. It was edited by Shane Phelan and published by Routledge on January 14, 1997, [2] [3] making it one of the first scholarly collections by American political theorists to address the topic of queer politics.
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Judith Butler, "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution", 1988; Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, 1990; Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks and White Liberals, 2006; Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Ethics of Identity, 2005; Harvey Mansfield, Manliness, 2006; Sara Ahmed, On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life, 2012
A gender script is a concept in feminist studies that refers to structures or paths created by societal norms that one is supposed to follow based on the gender assigned to them at birth. The American Psychological Association defines gender script as "a temporally organized, gender-related sequence of events". [ 1 ]
The feminist scholar and queer theorist Judith Butler critically applied a framework based on interpellation to highlight the social construction of gender identities. Butler argues that by hailing "It's a boy/girl," the newborn baby is ultimately positioned as subject.