MUSIC 139 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Heterosexuality, Judith Butler
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Assumptions about gender, sex, and sexuality: biological sex is the underpinning of gender, sexuality, and social identities, there are only two sexes, deviations from the natural order are mistakes that require intervention. What is biological sex: sex itself is a gendered category judith butler. Bodies don"t have signifiable existence prior to the mark of their gender. Our suppositions about men and women affect how bodies appear to us. We act in a belief that there are only two sexes and two genders, and in doing so we materialize a world that conforms to our beliefs. Gender reality is performative, which means that it is real only to the extent that it is performed".
