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Judith Butler: Gender Trouble

Gender Trouble is the work where she first presents her theory of gender performativity, but I had some problem on understanding it, if anyone could help me with it, like with an ELI5, thanks!!
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Basically gender consists of the actions that we take that express our gender. This is as opposed to the normal way of thinking about it, which would be that people act like men or women because they *are* men or women. Butler says it's the other way around. The things that make up the categories "man" and "woman" are the ways that people act.