Quote by Butler, Judith
"What I would propose, then, is a way of understanding performativity as that reiterative power of discourse to produce the phenomena that it regulates and constrains."
More from Butler, Judith
"Gender is performatively constituted by the very expressions that are said to be its results."
"There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the expressions themselves."
"If one 'is' a woman, that is surely not all one is."
"The body is not a being, but a variable boundary, a surface whose permeability is politically regulated."