David Bowie and Gender Performance English Essay
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He seems keenly aware of the idea of gender performance, that, as Judith Butler states “various acts of gender create the idea of gender, and without those acts, there would be no gender at all” (Butler 903). Bowie’s ability to deconstruct gender into its basic parts, the actions that define it, flow from his understanding of himself as a performer.