Deconstruction and Deontologicalization of the subject and gender identity: De Beauvoir and Butler

De Beauvoir and Butler are the most prominent thinkers who have emphasized the necessity of re-reading the subject and gender identity. Their attempt to find the meaning of subjectivism has been accompanied by the necessity to deconstruct the meanings of sex and gender. Accordingly, by focusing on the concept of becoming (De Beauvoir) and performance (Butler), they have sought to change the gender mentality (De Beauvoir) and the plurality of gender identity (Butler). Although Butler started with De Beauvoir with common points of view and owes some of the most important concepts of her thought, her interpretations and results of her thought are broader and more different than De Beauvoir. Explaining the constructivist nature of gender identity, De Beauvoir proposed a change of mindset to end the binary oppositions man-woman. Recognizing the cultural nature of gender identity, Butler exposes the various forms of power and its binary opposites and proposes the plurality of gender identity with the intent of ending gender ideology. According to Butler, although De Beauvoir’s constructivist views on gender identity and the formation of the female subject have had a significant effect on the formulation of her views