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Gender Performance is a term that was defined by [[Judith Butler]] in her text ''Gender is Burning''. <ref> Judith Butler: Gender is Burning. In: Sue Thornham (Hrsg.): Feminist Film Theory: A Reader New York: NYU Press, 1999. S. 381-395. </ref> The text deals with the topic of performance, which produces the concept of gender. Gender is therefore a certain kind of performance by an individual and not something that is given by birth. It rather is a learned behavior that is measured by its "realness".<ref>Ibid., p. 387.</ref>   
Gender Performance is a term that was defined by [[Judith Butler]] in her text ''Gender is Burning''. <ref> Judith Butler: Gender is Burning. In: Sue Thornham (Hrsg.): Feminist Film Theory: A Reader New York: NYU Press, 1999. S. 381-395. </ref> The text deals with the topic of performance, which produces the concept of gender. Gender is therefore a certain kind of performance by an individual and not something that is given by birth. It is a learned behavior that is measured by its "realness".<ref>Ibid., p. 387.</ref>   
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Gender Performance is a term that was defined by Judith Butler in her text Gender is Burning. [1] The text deals with the topic of performance, which produces the concept of gender. Gender is therefore a certain kind of performance by an individual and not something that is given by birth. It is a learned behavior that is measured by its "realness".[2]

  1. Judith Butler: Gender is Burning. In: Sue Thornham (Hrsg.): Feminist Film Theory: A Reader New York: NYU Press, 1999. S. 381-395.
  2. Ibid., p. 387.

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