307-320)Īs in most of her work, this essay of Butler’s problematizes the constructed nature of all identity categories, raising in particular the question of what it means to identify oneself as “lesbian.” If the dominant ideology constructs heterosexuality as the “original, ” true, natural expression of human sexuality, then lesbianism can only be seen as a kind of “mimicking” of the norm, an attempt at pretending to be heterosexual. (reprinted in The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. “Imitation and Gender Insubordination.” Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories. Please read my note at the top of the literature review for information on the genre and rhetorical context.Ĭopyright © 1993, 2010. NOTE TO STUDENTS: I prepared the annotated bibliography below to go with the literature review by the same title.
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