摘要：This paper discusses how female jazz instrumentalists perform gender while talking about gender in the context of jazz. Drawing on Judith Butler’s notion of gender as a norm, I argue that these women’s different attitudes embody different types of gender performance. I am most interested in those women who insist that they never think of being a woman. I consider these women to be performing gender without norms. Further, I will explore why they choose to do this type of gender performance, which, I suggest, would keep the existing gender norms unchanged.
