Summary Of Gender Trouble

In 1990, Judith Buttler wrote “Gender Trouble” which explored how gender and sexuality standarized in the construction of social theories. While inspired by Foucault, Lacan, Freud and Simon de Beauvior about sexuality, Buttler constructed their theories. Buttler use “the vocabularies of movement” as strategy to construct that is very uniqueness and became the burden of human manifestation, i.e. gender, sexes, and body. The social phenomenon develop too fast, while “the vocabularies of movement” are leave behind which make the vocabularies could not use to understand the reality.
In the last part of Gender Trouble, Judith Butler (1990) provides some references about heterosexuality that is created through a deconstructive dialog with the philosophy's works such as Strauss, Irigaray, Foucault, and de Beauvoir. In h/er book, Butler (1990) argued there was a dualism in Foucault' thought. In the one hand, Focault realized there was a pleasure out of social construction. Yet, in the other hand, he believed all of the
s/he is an intersex that is treated as a woman. In the beginning of h/er life, h/er parent called him/her Alexina. From h/er memoirs, s/he did not feel quite attractive and often slept over in h/er friend's house, because of that s/he often got punishments. Alexina is smart one, in 1858, she pursued h/er education to a prestigious teaching school, Le Chateau. In there, s/he felt in love with a teacher, named Sara. Although, s/he in the puberty age, Alexina did get h/er menstruation, h/er breast was flat too. s/he always shaved h/er mustache and beard, but it only made more bushy. The love story of Alexina and Sara were spread out through the school. Because s/he felt in love with a girl, the school punished h/er. Then Barbin confessed h/er sin to a Priest, Jean-François-Anne Landriot at La Rochelle, who suggested her/him to checked h/er condition to medical docter to got h/er true