Confession of a Mask: A Perverse Text?

Introduction
Individuals are not just aware of their place in the world, they are also involved in group interactions, all of which are located within social settings, each of these dimensions --- subjectivity, intersubjectivity and social context --- must be taken into account (Pile, 1996: 53). According to Judith Butler, the truth of sex is "produced and compelled by the regulatory practices of gender coherence" (1990: 24). Gender norms are under legitimate regulations. It is "the repeated stylization of the body, a set of repeated acts within a highly rigid frame that congeal over ti…