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Read My Desire, Pt. 3: Sex, Difference, Relation

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Isn't Butler a Feminist?

butler's whole point is that that it's the performance of gender that causes us to have the ideas that we have about biological sex right so i think yeah. She doesn't accept this absolute polarity of um a natural biological discourse on the one hand and then a symbolic language one on the other, she says. The construction within the symbolic of gender actually ends up constructing sex as well isn't that butler's point? John ultimately pushes back against butler by saying there is a claim that is totalizing that ignores a prior field that that of assumption which is where Butler roots her work. john sees butler kind of skipping a step that's what i was trying to get at

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