Text| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Standard Loan | LSAD Library Main Collection | 305.3 BUT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39002000096132 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In Bodies That Matter,Judith Butler further develops her distinctive theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most "material" dimensions of sex and sexuality. Deepening the inquiries she began in GenderTrouble,Butler offers an original reformulation of the materiality of bodies, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender.
Butler argues that power operates to constrain "sex" from the start, delimiting what counts as a viable sex. She offers a clarification of the notion of "performativity" introduced in Gender Troubleand explores the meaning of a citational politics. The text includes readings of Plato, Irigaray, Lacan, and Freud on the formation of materiality and bodily boundaries; "Paris is Burning," Nella Larsen's "Passing," and short stories by Willa Cather; along with a reconsideration of "performativity" and politics in feminist, queer, and radical democratic theory.
Includes index
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Part I
- I Bodies that Matter
- II The Lesbian Phallus and the Morphological Imaginary
- III Phantasmatic Identification and the Assumption of Sex
- IV Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion
- Part II 'Dangerous Crossing': Willa Cather's Masculine Names
- VI Queering, Passing: Nella Larsen Rewrites Psychoanalysis
- VI Arguing with the Real
- VIII Critically Queer
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Judith Butler was born in 1956. She is nationally known for her writings on gender and sexuality. She argues that men and women are not dissimilar and that the notion they are is cultural not biological in books such as Bodies That Matter: On The Discursive Limits Of "Sex" (1993), Excitable Speech: Contemporary Scenes Of Politics (1996), and The Psychic Life Of Power: Theories In Subjection (1997). In Gender Trouble (1990), the title a play on John Waters' camp classic Female Trouble (1975), Butler claims that both gender and drag are a kind of imitation for which there is no original.A professor of philosophy at University of California at Berkeley, Butler attended Yale, receiving a B.A. in 1978 and a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1984.
(Bowker Author Biography)