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Judith Butler and the Critique of Gender
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What is the central argument of Judith Butler's book (Gender Trouble)?
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Gender is a social construct that is performed and enacted.
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Butler argues that gender is not a fixed or essential attribute, but rather a set of performative acts that are repeated and reinforced over time. These acts create the illusion of a natural and binary gender system, but they are in fact arbitrary and contingent.