1. Diversity and Gender Identity
The concept of gender performativity is "real only to the extent that it is performed" (Gender Trouble). ... "It would make no sense, then, to define gender as the cultural interpretation of sex, if sex itself is a gendered category... gender is not to culture as sex is to nature; gender is also the discursive/cultural means by which "sexed nature" or a "natural sex" is produced and established as "prediscursive", prior to culture, a politically neutral surface on which culture acts"(Butler). ... "Gender is always a doing, though not a doing by a subject who might be said t...
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