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The 40 pages that link to Gender performativity, each with the reason it gives.

• Gender expressionCompared with: It examines repeated acts and norms, rather than treating expression as a transparent display of an inner identity.

• Gender essentialismCompared with: It challenges the idea that gendered conduct simply expresses a fixed inner nature.

• Separate spheresCompared with: It challenges the assumption that separate roles follow naturally from fixed male and female traits.

• Hegemonic masculinityCompared with: It explains gendered norms through repetition rather than Connell’s account of relational hierarchy.

• Monique WittigCompared with: Later debates often place Wittig’s material account of sex categories beside performativity theory.