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Gender-as-rhetoric : the rhetorical complexity of transgender identity and the challenge to performativity in Redefining Realness and Tomorrow Will Be Different, 2023
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Abstract
Since the publication of Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble in 1990, transgender scholars have challenged performativity theory on the basis that it describes gender as something frivolous and quickly “taken off” or “put on.” However, these critiques are inadequate because a closer reading of performativity theory shows that the theory stresses the slow sedimentation of gender over time. Regardless, performativity theory still does not properly accommodate...
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2023