butlerian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.11 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to Judith Butler (born 1956), American philosopher focused on feminism, queer theory, and ethics.
noun
An advocate of a form of Lamarckism put forward by Samuel Butler and Ewald Hering
Example Sentences
- "As [Mae] West aptly demonstrates, theatrical performance, performance in everyday life, and Butlerian performativity suggest how both actresses and prostitutes employ a variety of strategies to intervene in their discursive representations."
- "As we have explained, Butlerian theory affords us a way of understanding gendered, heterosexual relations that illuminates and helps to make sense of the (non-)responses of our participants."
- "In Butt, gender is aesthetically transcended: instead of a Butlerian gender performance that destabilizes masculinity through parody, or a celebration of the destruction of the masculine ego-ideal, which Bersani foregrounds, we find a non-essentialist transformation of the materiality of the male body."