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Sexual harassment law is very important. But I think it would be a mistake if the sexual harassment law movement is the only way in which feminism is known in the media.

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You only trust those who are absolutely like yourself, those who have signed a pledge of allegiance to this particular identity.

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To say that gender is performative is a little different because for something to be performative means that it produces a series of effects. We act and walk and speak and talk in ways that consolidate an impression of being a man or being a woman.

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Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies.

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A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of gender.

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It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation.

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The point is not to stay marginal, but to participate in whatever network of marginal zones is spawned from other disciplinary centers and which, together, constitute a multiple displacement of those authorities.

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I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.

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I would say that I'm a feminist theorist before I'm a queer theorist or a gay and lesbian theorist.

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The argument that all Jews have a heartfelt investment in the state of Israel is untrue. Some have a heartfelt investment in corned beef sandwiches.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Philosopher

Born: February 24th, 1956

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