"It seems, though, that historically we have now……" — Judith Butler
"It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims."
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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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