“We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that is simply true about us, a fact about us, but actually it's a phenomenon that is being produced all the time and reproduced all the time, so to say gender is performative is to say that nobody really is a gender from the start.”

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Gender Trouble

1990

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Bodies that matter

1993

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Who’s Afraid of Gender?

2024

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Undoing Gender

2006

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Giving an account of oneself

2003

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