Performativity

Performativity is the materialisation of norms, a process that is inherently unstable, latent wit...

Performatives are utterances that engender formative force per the utterance (formative + per (ut...

As Butler explains, "Within speech act theory, a performative is that discursive practice that en...

Performativity in Butler's view explains how gender identity constructs subjects and then is conn...