Gender Trouble

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• 💡How do everyday actions—from buying Valentine's Day flowers to the way we divide household chores—actually 'perform' and reinforce gender rather than just reflect an innate identity?
• 💡Why does Judith Butler argue that traditional feminist theory's reliance on the fixed identity of 'women' might actually trap it within the very patriarchal power structures it seeks to dismantle?
• 💡We often hear that gender is a social construct while biological sex is a fixed reality, but how does Butler challenge this distinction to argue that 'sex' itself is culturally constructed through discourse?