{"id":3491,"date":"2009-06-11T11:15:43","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T16:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=3491"},"modified":"2009-06-11T16:08:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T21:08:02","slug":"butler-1997-definition-of-perfomativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/06\/11\/butler-1997-definition-of-perfomativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Butler 1997 definition of performativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Butler, Judith. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Psychic Life of Power<\/span>. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; gender is performative, by which I meant that no gender is &#8220;expressed&#8221; by actions, gestures, or speech, but that the performance of gender produces retroactively the illusion that there is an inner gender core.  That is, the performance of gender <strong>retroactively<\/strong> produces the effect of some true or abiding feminine essence or disposition, so that one cannot use an expressive model for thinking about gender.  Moreover, I argued that gender is produced as a ritualized repetition of conventions, and that this ritual is socially compelled in part by the force of a compulsory heterosexuality.  144<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Butler, Judith. The Psychic Life of Power. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1997. &#8230; gender is performative, by which I meant that no gender is &#8220;expressed&#8221; by actions, gestures, or speech, but that the performance of gender produces retroactively the illusion that there is an inner gender core. That is, the performance of gender retroactively produces the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2009\/06\/11\/butler-1997-definition-of-perfomativity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Butler 1997 definition of performativity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,86,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-butler","category-gender","category-performativity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3491"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3499,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3491\/revisions\/3499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}