The Prohibition of Incest and the Production of Gender

Judith Butler analyzes a social phenomenon and not a biological one that creates the compulsion for men and women to have gender roles. You're performing and enacting heterosexual modes that create gender, she says. And by everybody playing along with this performance, we create a compulsion in society that requires people or a socially enforced mechanism that requires men to be men and woman to be women. That's where gender comes from, according to Judith Butler. It's reinterpreting the biological in terms of the social.

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