Performative Acts and Gender Constitution An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist-学术期刊.pdf

Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory Author(s): Judith Butler Source: Theatre Journal, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Dec., 1988), pp. 519-531 Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press Stable URL: /stable/3207893 Accessed: 14-11-2018 17:29 UTC REFERENCES Linked references are available on JSTOR for this article: /stable/3207893?seq=1cid=pdf-reference#references_tab_contents You may need to log in to JSTOR to access the linked references. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms Conditions of Use, available at /terms The Johns Hopkins University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Theatre Journal This content downloaded from 25 on Wed, 14 Nov 2018 17:29:33 UTC All use subject to /terms Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory Judith Butler Philosophers rarely think about acting in the theatrical sense, but they do have a discourse of acts that maintains associative semantic meanings with theories of performance and acting. For example, John Searles speech acts, those verbal as- surances and promises which seem not only to refer to a speaking relationship, but to constitute a moral bond between speakers, illustrate one of the illocutionary ges- tures that constitutes the stage of the analytic philosophy of language. Further, action theory, a dom