Gender Performativity
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Bodies to Wear: Four Lacanian Takes on Trans · Patricia Gherovici · p.19
BODIES TO WEAR FOUR LACANIAN TAKES ON TRANS > BODIES ON THE COUCH
Theoretical move: The passage uses the clinical encounter with hysterical and somatic symptoms in a Philadelphia barrio clinic as a launching point to triangulate Butler's theory of gender performativity with Lacan's assertion that "Woman does not exist," arguing that both converge on anti-essentialist grounds while diverging on the question of corporeal reality—a tension made acute by transgender clinical experience.
Central to their argument was the notion of gender as a performative act—an assertion that freed gender from the shackles of essentialist notions... Butler's assertion that gender is performative not only contested earlier feminist critiques of discourse-based sexuality but also blurred the lines of the sex-gender divide.