A Performative View of Gender Roles: Judith Butler

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This paper presented a view regarding to the concept of performativity in gender roles. This concept was supported with Judith Butler’s ideas and the embodiment of binary oppositions described in gender norms and gender roles. The normative structure of gender was determined through naturalization of norms and reproduction of these norms by society. This approval of heterosexuality in society was described with a feminist approach

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Performance, Performativity, Gender, Gender Role, Imposition, Heterosexuality, Norm, Normative