GENDER PERFORMATIVITY - JUDITH BUTLER

• What it is to man, woman or any other gender she believes is an open-ended question.
• Gender is simply a category assigned to infants from birth which has importance in medical and legal worlds.
• Gender is a mix of cultural norms, historical formations, family influences, psychic realities, desires and wishes and we have a say in that.
• The gender that you are assigned at birth and the gender you are brought up to be should not affect your life.
• One of not born a man or woman, they behave like one.
• Gender is something that is cultivated.
• We enact who we are. Gender is something that can be morphed to the person that we want to be.
• Gender = how you feel inside, do you consider yourself to be male or female.
• Particular behaviours construct gender. Traditionally female activities such as putting on makeup is what makes you female. For males, drinking beer and watching sport is what makes you male.