Adjective
Of or relating to Samuel Butler (1835–1902), iconoclastic Victorian author.
Of or relating to Judith Butler (born 1956), American philosopher focused on feminism, queer theory, and ethics.
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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.
Noun
An advocate of a form of Lamarckism put forward by Samuel Butler and Ewald Hering