A Genderless Life: Or How Autism Challenges Butler’s Theory of Gender

According to Judith Butler, sex is a symptom. She insists that all bodies are categorized by gender from birth; sometimes even earlier, it has become possible to judge gender within the womb. For the Butler society, gender and individuals will strengthen their gender through performance. In the words of Butler, "Behavior makes an actor"; before the performance there is no theme. But Butler 's concept of gender raises questions about the problems of people who can not do gender - specific things. If they can not, they lose their gender, lacking subjectivity and social identity.

The theory of "gender performance" or "gender performance" was originally created in a book titled "Gender Issues" published by Judith Butler in 1990. Butler's gender identity and gender expression theory is based on the concept of gender identity and categories. Butler 's work can link to Derrida' s work on J. L. Austin 's work, iteration and repetition on performance concepts. She thought that it relates to the definition of the meaning of the symbol "women" and the post-structuralist position of check symbols and symbols. In this article, we explored how gender expression theory of Butler was born from a wider context of feminist movement and discourse, butler was born of feminist's essentialism and intensive ideology, then including the idea of ​​"Queer theory" It is. Also consider the influence and importance of sexual expression in literary texts.

Judith Butler is currently one of the most outstanding social theorists working on gender building issues. Butler is a trained philosopher whose work dominates feminist theory and Queer theory. Butler's most famous work is the gender problem. Feminism and destructive identity announced in 1991 claims gender performance. This means that gender is not an essential category. The repeated performance of "male" and "female" in accordance with social norms makes the category more complicated and creates the emergence of naturalization and essential duality. Although gender was not a stable explanation of individuals, individuals always deviate from "stereotyped" gender, manifesting, or socially recognized gender stereotypes. Being gender is not just about acting in a specific way. It is to embody and believe in certain gender norms and to participate in practice mapping to these norms.