Butler redefines gender as a type of performance by essential saying gender is not stable or predefined, but instead is created through performance acts (ones’ language, gesture, and all other symbolic social signs). These acts are discontinuous as one chooses their own acts according to the social situation. In order to relate this to a better understanding of the social world, an example of a drag queen was used. As drag queens dress up and perform acts that creates an illusion of their abiding feminine gendered self during intermittent periods of their lives. Butler also helps understand the social world itself a factor in the way someone performances gender. Gender is created upon the appropriation of certain cultural values, stereotypes,
