Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory

1988/12/01 by Judith Butler · 40 citations
Social Sciences · #Critical Theory and Philosophy #Foucault, Power, and Ethics #Historical Gender and Feminism Studies

paper · doi:10.2307/3207893

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