Gender as Performance (Butler) (a stylised repetition of acts)
Judith Butler argued that gender is socially constructed through commonplace speech acts and nonverbal communication that are performative, in that they serve to define and maintain identities
Gender as a historical situation rather than natural fact (Butler)
she sees it not as a social imposition on a gender neutral body, but rather as a mode of "self-making" through which subjects become socially intelligible.
