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Performance Theory and Gender Perspectives
In Judith Butler's essay titled "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution" she explores the idea that gender is performative. Butler explains gender as an act and that there is an audience present, meaning society. The performance is imposed and enforced by several generations of society and repetitively used and acted out depending on male or female. Butler suggests that gender is natural because the body "becomes its gender through a series of acts which are renewed, revised and consolidated through time."