Editing Gender studies (section)

===Judith Butler===
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Philosopher and gender studies Judith Butler's work ''[[Gender Trouble]]'' discussed gender performativity. In Butler's terms the performance of gender, sex, and sexuality is about power in society.<ref name="performativity of gender"/><ref>{{cite book | last = Butler | first = Judith | author-link = Judith Butler | title = Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity | title-link = Gender Trouble | year = 1999 | page = [https://archive.org/details/gendertroublefem00butl/page/9 9]}}</ref> They locate the [[Social constructivism|construction]] of the "gendered, sexed, desiring subject" in "regulative discourses". A part of Butler's argument concerns the role of sex in the construction of "natural" or coherent gender and sexuality.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UczySqq19AIC|title=Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex|last=Butler|first=Judith|author-link=Judith Butler|year=2011|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9781136807183|language=en}}</ref> In their account, gender and heterosexuality are constructed as natural because the opposition of the male and female sexes is perceived as natural in the social imaginary.<ref name="performativity of gender">{{cite book | last = Butler | first = Judith | author-link = Judith Butler | title = Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity | title-link = Gender Trouble | year = 1999 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/gendertroublefem00butl_628/page/n197 163]–71, 177–8}}</ref> "Men's and Women's Beliefs About Gender and Sexuality" is an article written by authors Emily Kane and {{ill|Mimi Schippers|qid=Q61159987|short=yes}}, which explicitly focuses on the social construct of social opposition between men and women. Parallel to Butler's argument, this article also argues that gender is constructed as "natural" within our society when in reality it contains arbitrary aspects. By pointing out distinct differences between gender aspects of both men and women, this article reveals the source of opposition that Butler mentions, arguing that "men and women share a variety of interests based on personal circumstances and on social locations other than gender, but men's and women's gender interests do tend to differ."<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kane |first=Emily W. |last2=Schippers |first2=Mimi |date=1996 |title=Men's and Women's Beliefs about Gender and Sexuality |url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/189887 |journal=Gender and Society |volume=10 |issue=5 |pages=650–665 |issn=0891-2432}}</ref>