...practice of signification? That of parodic repetition or repetition with a difference. She remarks: If the rules governing signification not only restrict,...of alternative domains of cultural intelligibility, ie, [in the case of gender] new possibilities for gender that contest the rigid codes of hierarchical...

...hamstrings every discursive practice. Even when she speaks of compulsion and failure, she says: 1f the rules governing signification not only restrict,...of alternative domains of cultural intelligibility, ie, new possibilities for gender that contest the rigid codes of hierarchical binarisms, then it is...

...along matrices of gender hierarchy and compulsory heterosexuality, operate through repetition. . . . The subject is not determined by the rules through...of alternative domains of cultural intelligibility, ie, new possibilities for gender that contest the rigid codes of hierarchical binarisms, then it is...

..."within the practices of repetitive signifying," not from claims to independent and discrete identities: If the rules governing signification not only restrict,...of alternative domains of cultural intelligibility, ie, new possibilities for gender that contest the rigid codes of hierarchical binarisms, then it is...

..."girling of the girl") necessarily carry with them more than mere contextual determinations of identity: "the rules governing signification not only restrict,...of alternative domains of cultural intelligibility" (Gender, 145). For Butler, as for Derrida, to say that subjective agency is "performative" is not to...

...within the orhit of the compulsion to repeat; "agency," then, is to be located within the possihility of a variation on that repetition. If the rules governing...enable the assertion of alternative domains of cultural intelligihility, ie, new possihilities for gender that contest the rigid codes of hierarchical hinarisms,...

...non-foundationalist identity practices. My essay focuses upon those regulatory, national narratives which "not only restrict but enable the assertion of alternative domains of cultural intelligibility" (Butler 145). Following Homi Bhabha's statement that "to be Anglicized is emphatically not to be English"...

...retheori2el the signs of fatness, rendering fat intelligible socially and culturally. Butler argues that "[i]f the rules governing signification not only restrict,...cultural intelligibility . . . then it is only within the practices of repetitive signifying that a subversion of identity becomes possible,"14 a claim vital...

..."is to be located within the possibility of a variation on that repetition" (145). According to her, If the rules governing signification not only restrict,...of alternative domains of cultural intelligibility, ie, new possibilities for gender [for example] that contest the rigid codes of hierarchical binarisms,...

...consequence of certain rule-governed discourses that govern the intelligible invocation of identity. The subject is not determined by the rules through...of alternative domains of cultural intelligibility, ie, new possibilities for gender that contest the rigid codes of hierarchical binarisms, then it is...