...could very well apply also to the "Jewish" identity in whose theatricality Marlowe patently revels: "Gender ought not to be construed as a stable identity...an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts."65 Barabas's "stylized repetitions" recall those of another, equally melodramatic, equally vilified...

...automatically from biology. In her influential book. Gender Trouble. Judith Butler has written that "Gender ought not to be construed as a stable identity...an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts."4' She argues that gender is performative — created through the very "bodily gestures. movements....

...creates the illusion, the 'regulatory fiction', of a stable gender identity. Gender, then, 'should not be construed as a stable identity or locus of agency...exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts' (Butler, 1990a: 141; emphasis in original). 11 Judith Butler seems to disallow a reflexive self on...

...Trouble 19 develops a model of gender that emphasizes gender's exteriority, contingency, and historicity: Gender ought not to be construed as a stable identity...exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts. 50 Gender is an identity that must be constandy affirmed through intelligible (stylized and repeated)...

...[agarn] in the world. My words are my only fortune. Yamaoka Michiko Gender ought not to be constructed as a stable identity or locus of agency from which...exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts. . . . Judith Butler Women have been quite successful in carving out a prominent role in the kataribe...

...summarized by two statements taken from her work: Gender ought not be construed as a stable identity ... from which various acts follow; rather, gender is...space through a stylized repetition of acts ... the appearance of substance is precisely that, a constructed identity, a performative accomplishment which...

...losing the distinctive gender divisions established by the antebellum social order. Butler argues that "gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time,...exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts" and that this "requires a conception of gender as a constituted social temporality" (141). According...

...enclosure shows specifically how the gendered subject position within the text is, in Butler's words, "an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted...exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts [emphasis in original]."72 In the next chapter, I turn from a consideration of female enclosure within...

...between the meaning of repeated acts means that one's identity is always open to change. To quote Butler: Gender ought not to be construed as a stable identity...space through a stylized repetition of acts. . . . The possibilities of gender transformation are to be found precisely in the arbitrary relation between...

...transformation in terms of gendered identity is again highly relevant here: Gender ought not to be constructed as a stable identity or locus of agency from which...of acts. The effect of gender is produced through a stylization of the body and, hence, must be understood as the mundane way in which bodily gestures,...