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S2 Ep1003: #1003 - Gender Ideologies, Feminism, and the Catholic Church: Dr. Abigail Favale

Theology in the Raw

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The Performativity of Gender

Early butler advocates just e basically, the best you can do is just try to disrupt these norms. You know, she talks about drag as being this kind of parody that both shows the performativity of gender and undermines its by self consciously making it a performance. They're kind of subversively showing gender to simply be a performance, right? So, but she's ... pessimistic in the sense that she really sees social power as having so much, so much determinism over human beings that you can only really be this perpetual gadfly. Ah, you know, your knd of us. You can just cot trie queer enorms here and there, but you can never be

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