Abstract
This paper tries to explain Butler's performative model of gender. This model has been widely applied in women and gender studies, because it offers a strategy of subversion against phallogocentrism. In order to elaborate how Butler develops her model based on theories of Lacan and Foucault, this paper will examine Butler's four concepts: no distinction between sex/gender; sexual difference; performativity of gender; and drag and parody. This paper finds that Butler's model is useful to develop micro-politics for feminists, because she sucessfully incorporates Focaultian notion of power and Lacanian notion of the imaginary into her model, thus being able to explain how the bodies come to matter through identificatory process and develop her strategy of deconstruction.
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