ABSTRACT
In her theorisation of gender and identity, Judith Butler (1988, 1990/2006) makes the point of how a person may become marginalised when certain norms of the dominant culture are not manifested in and by a person and indeed in and by the body. Butler's extensive work on gender and identity has changed our understanding of the construction of gender and guided researchers to question the limits and
limitations of gender and its many manifestations. Butler's insights on the complex relationship between normativity and cultural intelligibility reveal the constructed nature of many of the categorisations that limit identity expression.
