Gender trouble : feminism and the subversion of identity / Judith Butler ; with an introduction by the author.

By:

Butler, Judith, 1956-

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Routledge classicsPublication details: New York : Routledge, 2007.Description: xxxvi, 236 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

0415389550 (pbk.)
9780415389556 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.4 BUT

Contents:

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 -- From parody to politics.

Summary: Since its initial publication in 1990, this book has become a key work 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 the author 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. Overall, this book offers a powerful critique of heteronormativity and of the function of gender in the modern world.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	305.4 BUT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Checked out	17/11/2020	39002100444406

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler's Gender Troubleis 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.

Originally published: 1990. 2nd ed.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-228) and index.

Since its initial publication in 1990, this book has become a key work 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 the author 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. Overall, this book offers a powerful critique of heteronormativity and of the function of gender in the modern world.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

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