"I was off to Yale to be a…" — Judith Butler

"I was off to Yale to be a lesbian"

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57 Quotes by Judith Butler

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

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