In this video clip, Judith Butler discusses the doing gender
theory, specifically focusing on how gender is not just performance, but is
also performative.
Here's a quote from the interview: "It’s one thing to say that gender is performed and that is a little
different from saying gender is performative. When we say gender is
performed we usually mean that we’ve taken on a role or we’re acting in
some way and that our acting or our role playing is crucial to the
gender that we are and the gender that we present to the world. 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."
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