Beyond Binary Opposition: De-gendering and Redefining Gender
Beyond Binary Opposition: De-gendering and Redefining Gender

Summary/Abstract: The paper gives a review of the recent linguistic research in the study of gender at the end of 20th century, particularly in the light of studying the performativity of gender (the concept introduced by Judith Butler in Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity), and studying to what extent and how the latest findings change the traditional definition of gender and the binary structure of society.

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