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Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.
Judith Butler
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Judith Butler
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 24
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Cleveland
Ohio
Judith P. Butler
Judith Pamela Butler
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