judy butler in Gender Trouble

Is the construction of the category of women as a coherent and stable subject
an unwitting regulation and reification of gender relations? And is not such
a reification precisely contrary to feminist aims?…If a stable notion of
gender no longer proves to be the foundational premise of feminist politics,
perhaps a new sort of feminist politics is now desirable to contest the very
reification of gender and identity…[and] to formulate within this constituted
frame a critique of the categories of identity that contemporary
juridical structures engender, naturalise, and immobilise. (p. 5)