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Judith Butler
“This utopian notion of a sexuality freed from heterosexual constructs, a sexuality beyond "sex", failed to acknowledge the ways in which power relations continue to construct sexuality for women even within the terms of a "liberated" sexuality for women even within the terms of a "liberated" heterosexuality or lesbianism.”
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Judith Butler
“If there is something right in Beauvoir's claim that one is born, but rather becomes a woman, it follows that woman itself is a term in process, a becoming, a constructing that cannot rightfully be said to originate or to end. As an ongoing discursive practice, it is open to intervention and resignification.”
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Judith Butler
“We can understand this conclusion to be the necessary result of a heterosexualized and masculine observational point of view that takes lesbian sexuality to be a refusal of sexuality per se only because sexuality is presumed to be heterosexual, and the observer, here constructed as the heterosexual male, is clearly being refused.”
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Judith Butler
“The exclusion of those who fail to conform to unspoken normative requirements of the subject.”
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Judith Butler
“Irigaray remarks in such a vein that "the masquerade... is what women do... in order to participate in man's desire, but at the cost of giving up their own".”
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

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