“That the power regimes of heterosexism and phallogocentrism seek to augment themselves through a constant repetition of their logic, their metaphysic, and their naturalized ontologies does not imply that repetition itself ought to be stopped—as if it could be. If repetition is bound to persist as the mechanism of the cultural reproduction of identities, then the crucial question emerges: What kind of subversive repetition might call into question the regulatory practice of identity itself?”

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Gender Trouble

1990

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Bodies that matter

1993

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Who’s Afraid of Gender?

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Undoing Gender

2006

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Giving an account of oneself

2003

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