Gender Categories Influence Feminism

general. I will examine how these categories influence one other, how these categories influence feminism, and how feminism, in turn, influences them, along with how these categories affect women. Specifically, I will argue that the construction of the 'normative', which helps produce feminist theory discourse and action, perpetually reproduces categories of exclusion, through the notions of representation and identity politics, the production of a split between gender and sex, and through Butlers views on gender and performativity.
Chapter one of Gender Trouble, "Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire," criticizes feminism, while looking at it through a feminist lens. This is shown through her immediate argument (in section I) that feminist theories