Gender Trouble Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Name: Gender Trouble Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
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ISBN: 9780415389556

ISBN-10: 0415389550

ISBN-13: 9780415389556

Edition: 2nd 2006

Authors: Judith P. Butler

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Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas that would go on to take life as "performativity theory," as well as some of the first articulations of the possibility for subversive gender practices, and she writes in her preface to the 10th anniversary edition released in 1999 that one point of Gender Trouble was "not to prescribe a new gendered way of life [...] but to open up the field of possibility for gender [...]" Widely taught, and…

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List price: $29.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/12/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 7.17" wide x 7.68" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and the Co-director of the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. She is presently the recipient of the Andrew Mellon Award for Distinguished Academic Achievement in the Humanities.



Preface (1999)


Preface (1990)



Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire



"Women" as the subject of feminism



The compulsory order of sex/gender/desire



Gender: the circular ruins of contemporary debate



Theorizing the binary, the unitary, and beyond



Identity, sex, and the metaphysics of substance



Language, power, and the strategies of displacement



Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix



Structuralism's critical exchange



Lacan, Riviere, and the strategies of masquerade



Freud and the melancholia of gender



Gender complexity and the limits of identification



Reformulating prohibition as power



Subversive Bodily Acts



The body politics of Julia Kristeva



Foucault, Herculine, and the politics of sexual discontinuity



Monique Wittig: bodily disintegration and fictive sex



Bodily inscriptions, performative subversions


Conclusion: From Parody to Politics


Notes


Index