Gender Theories

Gender Theories

Gender Theorist - Judith Butler -

Judith Butler (1956-) is Professor of Comparative Literature and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley, and is well known as a theorist of power, gender, sexuality and identity. Indeed, she is described in alt.culture as "one of the superstars of '90s academia, with a devoted following of grad students nationwide". (A fanzine, Judy!, was published in 1993).

Judith Butler says that Gender is performative. It is a 'doing' that makes gender what it claims it is. we are not a gender