The «monsters» of Judith Butler´s gender theory reflections on the notion of personal identity

Abstract

Through this article I share the progress of my postgraduate research entitled The notion of personal 
identity in Judith Butler's gender theory. In this case I want to share the considerations that lead me to intuit 
that in the selected work of the author there is, in a problematic way, a certain notion of personal identity 
that is crossed by the elaborations regarding gender, the same ones that have given Butler recognition 
in the Western academic world. What remains when we empty the subject of what is assumed to be 
part of its essential content and what makes it a person? In other words, can a person be considered as 
such without the gender in which they belong having a preponderant role in said consideration? If so, 
what idea of a person would that be? What would be their conditions of legitimacy at the theoretical, 
discursive and practical levels? And, finally, what role does performativity play in the consolidation and/
or dismantling of the gender matrix? These are some of the questions that guide this proposal.