Imitation and Gender Insubordination

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• Gender is the effect of reiterated acting • Produces the effect of a static or normal gender while obscuring the contradiction and instability of any single person’s gender act • This effect produces what we can consider to be “true gender,” a narrative that is sustained by “the tacit collective agreement to perform, produce, and sustain discrete and polar genders as cultural fictions is obscured by the credibility of those productions—and the punishments that attend not agreeing to believe in them.” • The performative acts which Butler is discussing she names to be performative and within the larger social, unseen world, they exist within performativity.
• The socially constructed aspect of gender performativity is perhaps most obvious in drag performance, which offers a rudimentary understanding of gender binaries in its emphasis on gender performance • Butler understands drag cannot be regarded as an example of subjective or singular identity, where “there is a ‘one’ who is prior to gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender decides with deliberation which gender it will be today” • Subsequently, drag should not be considered the honest expression of its performer’s intent • Rather, Butler suggests that what is performed “can only be understood through reference to what is barred from the signifier within the domain of corporeal legibility.”
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