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It wasn't possible just to rid oneself, simply, of the norms through which one is constituted.
Judith Butler
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Judith Butler
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 24
Art Theorist
Feminist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Philosopher
Sociologist
University Teacher
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Cleveland
Ohio
Judith P. Butler
Judith Pamela Butler
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Perhaps the promise of phallus is always dissatisfying in some way.
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