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“Perhaps the promise of phallus is always dissatisfying in some way.”

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Judith Butler is a renowned philosopher, born on February 24, 1956. Her research focuses on issues of gender, identity, and power, having a profound impact on postmodernism and gender theory. more

“I do not deny certain kinds of biological differences. But I always ask under what conditions, under what discursive and institutional conditions, do certain biological differences - and they're not necessary ones, given the anomalous state of bodies in the world - become the salient characteristics of sex.”

World Kind States Body Certain Asks Given Sex Differences Conditions Deny Characteristics

Author:Judith Butler

“In the first instance, performativity must be understood not as a singular or deliberate ‘act,’ but, rather, as the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names”

Firsts Names Practice Effects Produce Understood Instance Discourse Deliberate

Book:Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of

Source: Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of

“Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of bilberries.”

Ecstasy Bowls Jam Sinking Raspberries

Book:The Woman with the Little Fox: Three Novellas

Source: The Woman with the Little Fox: Three Novellas

“It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.”

Men Strange Creatures Fragile Garbage

Author:Nelson Algren

“I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write.”

Ifs Want Writing Helping Bachelors

Author:Nelson Algren

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