Performing Gender:Drag Performance and Its Reconstruction of Gender Identity in Chen Zhipeng’s Case

摘要

The thesis will analyze how to reconstruct gender identity through drag performance in a case study of Chen Zhipeng’s images in public based on Judith Butler’s concept of gender performativity.Chen Zhipeng’s cross-dressing reconstructs his dynamic gender identity by disrupting hierarchical power structure by interrogating gender identities based on binary oppositions.