...threaten to exceed representations. To think of gender as "performative" rather than substantive means that "there is no gender identity behind the expressions...by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results" (Butler, 25). Neither identity nor gender, then, exist prior to their articulation in historically...

...frontier is questioned in the work of Judith Butler (1990) when she makes gender a "trouble." For Butler "there is no gender identity behind the expressions...by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results" (p. 25). Likewise, the foundational character of experience has been made problematic and...

...of identity categories. "There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender," Butler says; "that identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results."48 In an essay making similarly powerful claims for the efficacy of performance, Carolyn Abbate...

...tales. Judith Butler sugiere que "there is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender: . . . identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results" (25). Lumpérica y El cuarto mundo presentan mundos creados dentro de un contexto sociopolítico,...

...application that Niatzsche himself would not have anticipated or condoned, we might state as a corollary: There is no gender identity behind the expressions...by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results.' The results of this "performance" may work to defy original or primary gender identities,...

...doer' is merely a fiction added to the deed" (Butler, Gender 25)." Her own corollary to Nietzsche — "There is no gender identity behind the expressions...by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results" (Gender 25) — she follows with the assertion: "A great deal of feminist theory and literature...

...Genealogy of Morals reads, "the doer behind the deed" (my emphasis). She then proceeds to quote correctly, "there is no gender identity behind the expressions...by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results." (140)4 Benhabib then goes on to attribute to me "a theory of the self" based on the above...

...in fact constitutes the self as a subject. As Butler writes: "There exists no gender identity behind expressions of gender; that identity is performatively...by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results" (1990: 25). Behind the actions and thoughts of the thinking, acting subject, there is no autonomous...

...and absence that gender is not constituted according to a code of conduct but is, on the other hand, performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results. For Pinera, to turn that performance into a conscious gesture, to isolate its participants...

...performance and performativity. Crucial to Butler's work, and my own following her, is the recognition that there is 'no gender identity behind the expressions...by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results'." Here Butler, like Fuss, works to attack the foundational illusions of identity. She argues...