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Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space… — Judith Butler

Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

Judith Butler
1990
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1990
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Judith Butler
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Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Routledge, 1990, ch. 3, pt. 4.

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