Performativity By Judith Butler Makes Feminist Argument
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Judith Butler is an American philosopher who has work to influenced political philosophy, ethics, and has made impact in the field of feminist. Society has created the terms of gender of binary in which it classifies the terms “male and female” and “masculine and feminine” making them seem be part of the norm, while in reality they are not. In her article “Performativity” Judith Butler argues that gender binary is not natural and that it has been constructed by society due to compulsory heterosexuality and phallogocentrism. Compulsory heterosexuality is the idea in which it is natural for the female heterosexuality to be both determined, which creates two gender male and female. Phaollogocentrism refers to gender hierarchy in which it privileges