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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…
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There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to…
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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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It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most…
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Lacanian theory must be understood as a kind of “slave morality.
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Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive…
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I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I do not…
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The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that…
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Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.
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Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.
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Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.
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Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces…
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