Judith Butler Sexual Politics, Social Change and the Power of the Performative

Name: Judith Butler Sexual Politics, Social Change and the Power of the Performative
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ISBN: 9780415219747

ISBN-10: 0415219744

ISBN-13: 9780415219747

Edition: 2008

Authors: Gill Jagger

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Judith Butler's work on gender, sexuality, identity, and the body has proved massively influential across a range of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Yet it is also notoriously difficult to access. This key book provides a comprehensive introduction to Butler's work, plus a critical examination of it and its precursors, both feminist (including Simone de Beauvoir, Monique Wittig, Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray), and non-feminist (including Erving Goffman, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida). The volume covers such topics as: gender as performance and performativity sociological notions of performance the materiality of the body and the…

Book details

List price: $165.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 3/12/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 6.05" wide x 9.05" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Introduction



Gender as performance and performative



Body matters: from construction to materialization



Performativity, subjection and the possibility of agency



The politics of the performative: hate speech, pornography and 'race'



Beyond identity politics: gender, transgender and sexual difference


Afterword


Notes


Bibliography


Index