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This usage has its origin in {{plainlink|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Butler|Judith Butler}}’s view that gender is a mutable social construct, characterised by repeated actions, language and dispositions that shape (and are shaped by) the physical environment. | This usage has its origin in {{plainlink|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Butler|Judith Butler}}’s view that gender is a mutable social construct, characterised by repeated actions, language and dispositions that shape (and are shaped by) the physical environment. | ||
{{quote| | {{quote|“When we say that gender is performed, we usually mean that we’ve taken on a role; we’re acting in some way... To say that gender is performative is a little different, because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman ... We act as if that being of a man or that being of a woman is actually an internal reality or something that’s simply true about us, a fact about us. 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.”<ref>Judith Butler, ''Your Behavior Creates Your Gender'' (2011)</ref>}} | ||
If gender is “performative” in this way — and this encapsulation seems a distance from what was traditionally meant by “biological sex”, though the two have since become conflated — then it stands to reason that where one can choose one’s performance, then one’s gender can be whatever one chooses it to be. All the world’s a stage. | If gender is “performative” in this way — and this encapsulation seems a distance from what was traditionally meant by “biological sex”, though the two have since become conflated — then it stands to reason that where one can choose one’s performance, then one’s gender can be whatever one chooses it to be. All the world’s a stage. | ||
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