Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble" (Part 1/2)
Theory & Philosophy
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The Mask of Feminine Sexuality
Lacan suggests that in Lacan, homosexuality is something that is often worded off. So as Butler says on 62, men have a phallus, but women are a phallic persona. The donning of femininity as a mask may reveal a refusal of a female homosexuality and at the same time, an odd form of preserving and protecting that love within the circle of the melancholic and negative narcissism.
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