Judith Butler's "Gender Performativity" Theory And Its Ethical Enlightenment

In today's society, gender has become a hot topic. Judith, as a representative figure of contemporary post modern feminism, has great influence and significance on the development of feminism and ethics. Based on Judith Butler's "gender performativity,theory as the research object, the interpretation of which contains rich theoretical basis and practical significance. Butler "sexual performance" theory of Foucault's "discourse power",Lacan's "masquerade psychological mechanism ",Austen's "speech act" and Derrida "discourse / repeated references" many postmodern philosophers important theoretical point of view, to rethink the traditional feminist theory for gender discrimination, gender identity and subjectivity the basic category, and "women" as the core concept of feminism and compulsory heterosexuality etc.. From the perspective of feminist analysis, through criticizing the male discourse system, the core category of deconstruction of feminism, advocated reconstruction of female subjectivity, chained to the development of feminist theory to get rid of the traditional ideas of gender norms. By rearranging the gender performativity theory and in-depth interpretation, we can see that Butler's performative theory of gender contains rich ethical connotation, this article from the "gender performativity theory" read "gender equality" and "gender","gender concern" with "gender justice" to explain the relationship which contains the concept of gender equality, the gender performativity theory and ethics basic viewpoint of Butler fusion, which found ethics enlightenment and practical significance.We hope that through the in-depth study of Judith Butler's gendered performance theory, to explore the theory of Ethical Enlightenment, and to promote gender equality theory, and the analysis and discussion in today's society of gender equality in the phenomenon and movement, called for gender discourse in China on the gender identity to re-examine and deconstruction. The expansion of gender identity and gender equality concerns and reconstruction, in order to achieve in practice against gender oppression,sexism and subversion of gender equality and reconstruction of realistic topic purpose.