Performativity
Butler elaborates this idea in the first chapter of Gender Trouble: "Gender is the repeated stylization of the body, a set of repeated acts within a highly rigid regulatory frame that congeal over time to produce the appearance of substance, of a natural sort of being. A political genealogy of gender ontologies, if it is successful, will deconstruct the substantive appearance of gender into its constitutive acts and locate and account for those acts within the compulsory frames set by the various forces that police the social appearance of gender.”
Gender's constructed nature in order to fight for the rights of oppressed identities, those identities that do not conform to the artificial rules that govern normative heterosexuality. If those rules are not natural or essential, Butler argues, then they do not have any claim to justice or necessity. Since those rules are historical and rely on their continual citation or enactment by subjects, then they can also be challenged and changed through alternative performative acts. For this reason, gender is as fully real as anyone whose performance complies with social expectations.
As a common question: “if I am not wholly formed by this power of the state, in what way am I, or might I be, formed?“.Asking yourself this question means you are already beginning to form yourself in another way, to alien yourself to another circle, outside this relation with the state, so critical thought distances you to some extent.
Wouldn’t T.S.Eloit’s <Love song of Prufrock> the best annotation to Perform-activity? In a daring attempt to interpret Eliot’s misogyny, Prufrock attended a nameless and sexless companion making a visit in the evening, findingdifficulties to accept their sexual nature. Roaming inhalf-deserted streets yet finally determined to maintain the shackles of patriarchy.
Gender's constructed nature in order to fight for the rights of oppressed identities, those identities that do not conform to the artificial rules that govern normative heterosexuality. If those rules are not natural or essential, Butler argues, then they do not have any claim to justice or necessity. Since those rules are historical and rely on their continual citation or enactment by subjects, then they can also be challenged and changed through alternative performative acts. For this reason, gender is as fully real as anyone whose performance complies with social expectations.
As a common question: “if I am not wholly formed by this power of the state, in what way am I, or might I be, formed?“.Asking yourself this question means you are already beginning to form yourself in another way, to alien yourself to another circle, outside this relation with the state, so critical thought distances you to some extent.
Wouldn’t T.S.Eloit’s <Love song of Prufrock> the best annotation to Perform-activity? In a daring attempt to interpret Eliot’s misogyny, Prufrock attended a nameless and sexless companion making a visit in the evening, findingdifficulties to accept their sexual nature. Roaming inhalf-deserted streets yet finally determined to maintain the shackles of patriarchy.
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