Renowned gender theorist Judith Butler was ahead of the game when they declared gender a performance and coined the term “gender performativity” in 1990’s
was ahead of the game when they declared gender a performance and coined the term “gender performativity” in 1990’sarguing against “anti-gender ideology movements,” namely, trans exclusionary radical feminists and those on the far right who see the expansion of gender categories as something to be feared.
In the most persuasive chapter, while arguing that the category of “women” should not be fixed and should be expanded to include trans identities, Butler writes, “Feminism has always relied on the historically changing character of gender categories in order to demand changes in the way that men and women are defined and treated.
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