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Gender Trouble, "Stability" in Gender (Heterosexual Matrix (grid…
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"Stability" in Gender
When Butler argues that gender is a social or cultural fiction, she means that gender is not a biological absolute but instead the product of a set of implicit social agreements
Reliant on a "ground," that gender, as a social construct, maintains a stable identity
Heterosexual Matrix
grid of "cultural intelligibility" where sex, gender and desire are maintained within a heterosexual binary (coherent pattern of sex - gender - oppositional desire)
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Instability in Gender
Failure to repeat, a de-formity, or a parodic repetition that exposes the phantasmatic effect of abiding identity as a politically tenuous construction
Gender is not static, but rather always changing
Occasional discontinuities in gender performance and acting out of accordance with gendered norms all reveal the instability of gender
According to Butler, genders can be neither true nor false, real nor apparent, original nor derived.
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potential questions
How does the performative act of gender relate to gendered stereotypes, especially those for WOC? (Women of Color)
How does how we view reality relate to gender and the legitimization of violence against those who challenge gender norms?
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Trans trending, me too, homosexuality all relate to acceptable discourse thing and trend