...without the acts there would be no gender (140). It follows that "[gjender ought not to be considered as a stable identity or locus of agency from which...exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts" (140; Butler's emphasis). The ontological "mistake" of gender identity, however, is only one of the...

...be construed as a stable identity or locus of agency from which various acts follow', Butler argues; 'rather, gender is an identity tenuously constituted...exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts' (emphasis in original). The Victorian ritual of 'coming out' can be seen as an act of 'stylized repetition'...

...rigid regulatory frame that congeal over time to produce the appearance of substance." She insists, "Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time,...an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts."2* Expressions of gender rest on norms that are themselves culturally constructed. In the cases...

...theory effectively evokes the tenor of this scene (and reminds us as well of its gender specificity): "an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted...an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts."10 On this image, with a desolate flourish, the picture fades.11 Metonymy and theatricality in...

...not go red and shiny, and that their hair stays in place. Or, in the words of Judith Butler (1990): 'gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylised repetition of acts'. Those 'acts' involve 'work' which is antithetical to the 'work' involved...

...8)and some of Judith Butler's arguments about the performativity of gender, particularly her point that "gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time,...exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts" (Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity [London and New York: Routledge, 1990], 140)....

...end of verses and the absence of long, drawn-out melisma. "EFFEMINATE" MEN AND "HOT-TEMPERED" WOMEN Gender ought not to be construed as a stable identity...an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.24 The ability of mediums to perform stereotypical gender roles of male and female (and young)...

...as the natural configuration of bodies into sexes existing in a binary relation to one another [...] Gender ought not to be construed as a stable identity...in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylised repetition of acts.1-* Both Jordan and the Dog- Woman are at the mercy of such regulatory...

...seem a given instead of understanding the body as discursively gendered. Judith Butler insists that "gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time,...exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts" (Gender Trouble 140, emphasis hers). The idea of "gender as performative" conceptualizes it as a parody...

...the mundane and ritualized form of their legitimization ... this 'action' is a public action . . . gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time,...exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts." Insofar as the public mourning ritual stands as a cultural mechanism designed and performed in order...