Gender

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Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.

Judith Butler

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Topic

Gender Identity

Author

Judith Butler

Language

English

Time

1990 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Routledge, 1990, ch. 3, pt. 4.

In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is the very opposite of what it is above.

Virginia Woolf

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Topic

Gender roles Gender

Author

Virginia Woolf

Source

Orlando

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1928 1920s 20th century

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Original Citation

Woolf, Virginia. Orlando: A Biography. Hogarth Press, 1928, ch. 4.

Current Citation

Woolf, Virginia. Orlando. Penguin Classics, 2019, ch. 4.