Judith Butler was born in Cleveland, Ohio, America and is well know for being a post structuralist philosopher. Here I will talk about one of her theories, 'Queer Theory'
Queer Theory
Judith Butler is prominently involved with the analyses of sex and gender. Butler argues that gender and sexuality is not an essential truth derived from the body. Judith said,
"Gender is the repeated stylisation of the body, a set of repeated acts within a highly rigid reulatory frame that congeal over time to produce the appearance of substance, of a natural sort of being." Judith focused on the production of gender and she analysed what cultural work is done by the representation of gender as an expression which is natural. She argued that the heterosexuality status is the default status for sexuality. Butler also said,
"The notion that there might be a 'truth ' of sex, fourcault ironically terms it is produced prescisely through the regulatory practices that generate coherent identities through the matrix of coherent gender norms.
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