Identity

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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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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.

Every time you open your wardrobe, you look at your clothes and wonder what you are going to wear. What you are really saying is "Who am I going to be today?"

Fay Weldon

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Clothing Identity

Author

Fay Weldon

Source

The New Yorker

Medium

Magazine

Language

English

Time

1995 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Weldon, Fay. Quoted in The New Yorker. 26 June 1995.

Being blonde is definitely a different state of mind. I can't really put my finger on it, but the artifice of being blonde has some incredible sort of sexual connotation.

Madonna

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Blondes Identity

Author

Madonna

Source

Rolling Stone

Medium

Interview Magazine

Language

English

Time

1989 1980s 20th century

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Citation

Madonna. "Madonna: The Rolling Stone Interview." Interviewed by Bill Zehme. Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 1989.