Performativity

Judith Butler developed the notion of performativity in “Gender Trouble” and noted that, “the view that gender is performative shows that what we take to be an internal essence of gender is manufactured through a sustained set of acts, posited through the gendered stylization of the body.” People act differently from others. Butler explains that people walk, talk and speak, and give the impression of being a man or a woman. You can’t be a certain sexuality, but you can perform an identity. It’s the idea of performing a behavior that is percieved as the norm in society or the behavior that is not the norm. The term underlines how meaning is created in the process of making.

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