...required to construct racial differences. Judith Butler suggests that identities are constructed through 'the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names' (Butler 1993, p. 2). The construction of identity is not a singular act or gesture but, rather, a process...

...(re)production of individual bodies. In Butler's sense, then, that norm is performative, an instance of "a reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names" (2). Such practices need not be discursive in a strict sense but might include material practices as...

...the regulation" of individuals. Performativity is not a "singular or the deliberate 'act,' but . . . the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names" (Butler 1993: 2). Part of this discourse relates to the relatively consistent ideas that vendors have...

...representation: "[P]erformativity must be understood not as a singular or deliberate 'act,' but, rather, as the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names" (Butler, Bodies 2). Bringing Butler's notion of identity as performative together with Gates's rhetorical...

...Bodies That Matter, where "performativity," by means of which subjectivity is produced, is defined as "the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names." See also Fran Martin's insightful analysis of subjectivity in Chinese culture, "Chen Xue's Queer Tactics,"...

...Butler states: "performativity must be understood not as a singular or deliberate 'act,' but, rather, as the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names. . . . the regulatory norms of 'sex' work in a performative fashion to constitute the materiality of...

...human activity or granted by natural extra-human forces, the idea of performativity draws attention to "the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names.'"1 Performativity, then, points to the enormous power of language to create, through repeated...

...prostitution. Judith Butler defines performativity "not as a singular or deliberate 'act,' but, rather, as the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names" (Bodies 2), a definition that owes much to JL Austin's speech act theory. Austin claims there are two...

...indeed that bodies become legible in and through gendering, through a process she calls performativity, "the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names." See Butler 2. Works Cited Althusser, Louis. "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Towards...

...practices, where 'performativity must be understood not as a singular or deliberate "act", but, rather, as the reiterative and citational practice by which discourse produces the effects that it names' (Butler, 1993: 2), that will be seen as a (necessarily precarious) legislation of an ethics of welcome....