...gender exposes as well the illusion of gender identity as an intractable depth and inner substance. As the effects of a subtle and politically enforced...splittings, self-parody, self-criticism, and those hyperholic exhihitions of "the natutal" that, in their very exaggeration, reveal its fundamentally...

...naturalizing narratives of compulsory heterosexuality of their central protagonists: 'man' and 'woman.' As the effects of a subtle and politically enforced...reveal its fundamentally phantasmatic status. (Butler 1990) To anyone acquainted with theorizations of gay male camp, this is not unfamiliar territory: As...

...the moon becomes round You'll be my mother when everything's gone. —The Pretenders, "Hymn to Her" As the effects of a subtle and politically enforced...exaggeration, reveal its fundamentally phantasmatic status. —Judith Butler, Gender Trouble This project is concerned with questions raised by the vexed status...

...the costume, ie, a repetition of arbitrary codes. Again in the words of Butler: "As the effects of subtle and politically enforced performativity, gender...exaggeration, reveal its fundamentally phantasmatic status" (l46-47). Thus, when we laugh at Dustin Hoffman alias Dorothy Michaels, we are also made aware of the...

...efforts to show some ways in which theory "passes through things that happened to me." Fragment One As the effects of a subtle and politically enforced...exaggeration, reveal its fundamentally phantasmatic status. -Judith Butler (1990, 146-7) In her discussion of impersonation, Jane Gallop (1995) argues for a notion...

...Amazon.' Roget's Tliesaimis on 'woman' 'Gender is an act ... which is open to splitting, self parody, self-criticism, and those hyperbolic exhibitions of...exaggeration, reveal its fundamentally phantasmatic status.' JUDITH BUTLER, 1990 'Womanliness . . . could be assumed and worn as a mask, both to hide the possession...

...of gender parody can provoke a response that is subversive of the very notion of natural identity: "As the effects of a subtle and politically enforced...exaggeration, reveal its fundamentally phantasmatic status" (1990, 146-147). Drag is particularly instructive, Butler suggests, insofar as it can expose the performativity...

...gender exposes as well the illusion ol gender identity as an intractable depth and inner substance. As the effects of a subtle and politically enforced performativity, gender is an "act," as it were, thai is open to splittings, self-parody, self-criticism, and those hyperbolic exhihitions of "the natural"...

...its phantasmatic structure' (1990, 30-1), and later argues that 'the parodic repetition of gender' is 'open to splittings, self-parody, self-criticism,...exaggeration, reveal its fundamentally phantasmatic status' (1990, 146-7). What Carter shows, most especially in The Passion of New Eve, is that the cinema is...

...gender exposes as well the illusion of gender identity as an intractable depth and inner substance. As the effects of a subtle and politically enforced...exaggeration, reveal its fundamentally phantasmatic status. I have tried to suggest that the identity categories often presumed to be foundational to feminist...