Gender Trouble

Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

By: Judith Butler

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Paperback | 1 May 2006 | Edition Number 1

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One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine'. Best known however, but also most often misinterpreted, is Butler's concept of gender as a reiterated social performance rather than the expression of a prior reality. Thrilling and provocative, few other academic works have roused passions to the same extent.

About the Author

Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American philosopher and gender theorist whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics and the fields of feminist, queer and literary theory. Since 1993, she has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is now Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and co-director of the Program of Critical Theory.

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'Indispensable for feminist theory.' - Hypatia

'At times brilliant, always groundbreaking, Gender Trouble is bound to make some trouble of its own.' - Outweek

'The most authoritative attack to date on the "naturalness" of gender. This is a brilliant and innovative book.' - Sandra Lee Bartky

'Rereading this book, as well as reading it for the first time, reshapes the categories through which we experience and perform our lives and bodies. To be troubled in this way is an intellectual pleasure and a political necessity.' - Donna Haraway

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Preface (1999)	p. vii
Preface (1990)	p. xxix
Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire	p. 1
"Women" as the subject of feminism	p. 2
The compulsory order of sex/gender/desire	p. 8
Gender: the circular ruins of contemporary debate	p. 10
Theorizing the binary, the unitary, and beyond	p. 18
Identity, sex, and the metaphysics of substance	p. 22
Language, power, and the strategies of displacement	p. 34
Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix	p. 47
Structuralism's critical exchange	p. 52
Lacan, Riviere, and the strategies of masquerade	p. 59
Freud and the melancholia of gender	p. 78
Gender complexity and the limits of identification	p. 89
Reformulating prohibition as power	p. 97
Subversive Bodily Acts	p. 107
The body politics of Julia Kristeva	p. 107
Foucault, Herculine, and the politics of sexual discontinuity	p. 127
Monique Wittig: bodily disintegration and fictive sex	p. 151
Bodily inscriptions, performative subversions	p. 175
Conclusion: From Parody to Politics	p. 194
Notes	p. 205
Index	p. 229
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Gender Trouble

Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

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The Cider House Rules

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Further Feminisms

Are Men Necessary?

When Sexes Collide

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The Feminine Mystique

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