ual
identity, therefore, feminism had closed the options down.
Butler comments that feminists rejected the idea that biology is destiny,
but then developed an account of patriarchal culture, which assumed that
masculine, and feminine genders would inexorably be built, by culture, upon
'male' and 'female' bodies, making the same fate just as inevitable. Her
disagreement allows no room to argue that sex whether male or female are
seen to cause gender i.e. masculine and feminine, which is seen to cause
Desires' towards the other gender. Her theory sees this as a kind of
variety. Her approach is partially related to various links, which believe
that gender and desire are flexible, free-floating and not caused by other
'There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; ... identity
is performatively constituted by the very expressions that are said to be
In other words butler simply believes that, gender is a performance and a
presentation; it is what a person does at a particular time, instead of the
universal question of who you are' Butlers book helped to shed a new light
and a new image, at sex and gender. She always opposed the fixed masculine
and feminine gender binary, in her book, she argues that gender should be
seen as liquid and inconsistent; the way people behave at different times
and in different situations, a behavior is invariable and does not remain
The Desire Link
In her book, Butler has also dealt with the problem of sex-gender-desire
link. Her very Conservative theory states that our sex whether male or
female leads to the production of our gender i.e. masculine or feminine,
which causes our desire towards the opposite sex.
According to the father of psychoanalysis Freud, there are certain
identifications that are necessary in forming a gendered self an...