...sex differences, Butler defines gender in a much more dynamic way, gender being performance: ". . . gender is an identity, tenuously constituted in time,...exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts" (p. 140). By viewing gender in this way, Butler reverses the hierarchy and suggests that gender is...

...is 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...

...Geschlechterrollenvorgaben hinterfragt und die Bernstein (1997: 5). Vgl. Butlers gcnder-Def'mition: "[Gender] is an identity tenuously constituted in...in an exterior space through a stylized repetition ofacts" (Butler 1990: 140; Hervorhebung im Original). 350 problematisch bewertete Nähe zum männlichen...

...repetition of socially evaluated action. In Gender Trouble, performance had been concisely defined as "an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted...exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts" (Butler 1990, 140; emphasis in original). A process unfolding over time in an exterior space, shaped...

...Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York: Routledge, 1990), 140-41, 145, when she writes, "Gender ought not to be construed as a stable identity...exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts.... If gender attributes, however, are not expressive but performative, then these attributes effectively...

...conclusion of her discussion of gender performativity, now shorn of reference to Beauvoir, she notes: 'Gender ought not to be construed as a stable identity...constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through the stylized repetition of acts' (GT: 179). 45 Although I cannot develop this argument here, it is...

...necessarily as something people have but as something people do. Butler (1990, 140) argues that gender is not "a stable identity or locus of agency from which various...exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts." Especially in a context such as colonial Africa — where gender was already quite malleable and a...

...thus unwittingly repeating his childhood mistake of reversing the gender construction in the line. If "gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time,...exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts" (Butler 1990, 140; emphasis in original), the film shows that the reiterative force of Dieyi's performativity...

...reading here is largely informed by Butler's discussion of performative gender and her definition that "Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time,...exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts." See Gender Trouble, 140. 31. Richard Gameson, Tlie Role of Art in the Late Anglo-Saxon Church (Oxford:...

...gender's founding alibi, gave Butler one way, among many explored in Gender Trouble, to conclude that gender ought not to be construed as a stable identity...exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts. . . . This formulation moves the conception of gender off the ground of a substantial model of identity...