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“If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that heterosexuality issues from a disappointed homosexuality?”

Judith Butler book Gender Trouble

Source: Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

“Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.”

Judith Butler book Undoing Gender

Source: Undoing Gender

“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 book Gender Trouble

"Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity" (1990)

“The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.”

Judith Butler

"Further Reflections on the Conversations of Our Time" (1997), which received first place in the Philosophy and Literature Bad Writing Contest

“To operate within the matrix of
power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.”

Judith Butler book Gender Trouble

Source: Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

“Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.”

Judith Butler

Judith Butler Quotes

“We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.”

Judith Butler

“Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something.”

Judith Butler

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

Judith Butler

Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (1993)

“Perhaps the promise of phallus is always dissatisfying in some way.”

Judith Butler

"The Lesbian Phallus and the Morphological Imaginary" (1993), later published in The Judith Butler Reader (2004) edited by Sarah Salih with Judith Butler

“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.”

Judith Butler book Gender Trouble

"Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity" (1990)

“There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said “we should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge.” It was a great moment, an extraordinary moment, because what he was actually asking people to do was to stay with a sense of grief, mournfulness, and vulnerability.”

Judith Butler

Interview with Judith Butler. in: The Believer. May 2003

“I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality. I was never against the category of men.”

Judith Butler

"As a Jew, I was taught it was ethically imperative to speak up" in Haaretz. February 24, 2010

“Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.”

Judith Butler

"Imitation and Gender Insubordination" in Inside/Out (1991) edited by Diana Fuss

“Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.”

Judith Butler

Source: 'Gender is een performance', Gender is a performance, Anouta de Groot, 2017-09-04, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, nl, In 1999 schreef de Amerikaanse filosoof Judith Butler haar bekende werk Gender Trouble. Met dit boek zette zei het begrip gender op de kaart. Butler stelt hierin dat gender niet biologisch vastgelegd is, maar door de maatschappij wordt bepaald en steeds kan veranderen. "Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.", 2022-06-12 https://www.ru.nl/radboudreflects/terugblik/terugblik-2017-0/terugblik-2017/17-09-04-man-vrouw-doe-filosofieworkshop-anya/,