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What did Judith Butler (1999) suggest about gender?

Correct answer C. Gender is performed through bodily gestures and styles to create sex

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Butler argued that gender is performative: repeated bodily acts, gestures and styles create the appearance of a natural gender and even of a fixed biological sex.

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