Judith Butler Quotes About Identity

Quotes about: Identity

• Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act... a "doing" rather than a "being". There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results. If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called 'sex' is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.

  Judith Butler

  Sex, Character, Expression

• There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results.

  Judith Butler

  Expression, Identity, Gender

  Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory Judith Butler (2002). “Gender Trouble: Tenth Anniversary Edition”, p.33, Routledge

• Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.

  Judith Butler

  Identity, Connections, May

  Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory Judith Butler (2011). “Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex”, p.75, Taylor & Francis

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

  Judith Butler

  Space, Identity, Gender

  Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity pt. 3, ch. 4 (1990)

• Surely binationalism is not love, but there is, we might say, a necessary and impossible attachment that makes a mockery of identity, an ambivalence that emerges from the decentering of the nationalist ethos and that forms the basis of a permanent ethical demand.

  Judith Butler

  Ethos, Attachment, Identity

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

• You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.

  Judith Butler

  Identity, Allegiance, Particular

• Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive?

  Judith Butler

  Order, Law, Identity

  Judith Butler (2011). “Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity”, p.102, Routledge

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