Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

self-and-identity

• To make trouble was something one should never do precisely because that would get one in trouble — the prevailing law threatened one with trouble for doing so.

  GTR-RC-022

• Is there 'a' gender which persons are said to have, or is it an essential attribute that a person is said to be? If gender is constructed, could it be constructed differently?

  GTFS-RC-032

• One takes the first term of each perception as the 'reality' of gender: the gender introduced through the simile lacks 'reality,' and is taken to constitute an illusory appearance.

  GTR-RC-017

embodiment

• What conditions the domain of appearance for gender itself? Gender norms establish what will and will not be intelligibly human.

  GTFS-RC-015

erotic-as-power

• Women must 'be' precisely what men are not and, in their very lack, establish the essential function of men. 'Being' the Phallus is always a 'being for' a masculine subject.

  GTR-RC-074

• If there is no recourse to a 'person' or 'sexuality' that escapes the matrix of power and discursive relations, what constitutes the possibility of effective subversion or displacement?

  GTR-RC-062