Essay
Explain why Butler writes of ‘the false universal of man’ (p. 904) and give an account of what she thinks feminism (her own and that of others) has done to adjust this falsity.
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Butler writes of ‘the false universal of man’ as a means to express the universal notion of what the human is, and what it is perceived to be due to the configuration of these cultural frames and historical images. Butler notes that gender is defined as being merely a set of performative acts,...
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