Judith Butler / Moya Lloyd.

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With the publication of her highly acclaimed and much-cited book Gender Trouble, Judith Butler became one of the most influential feminist theorists of her generation. Her theory of gender performativity and her writings on corporeality, on the injurious capacity of language, on the vulnerability of human life to violence and on the impact of mourning on politics have, taken together, comprised a substantial and highly original body of work that has a wide and truly cross-disciplinary appeal.

In this lively book, Moya Lloyd provides both a clear exposition and an original critique of Butler's work. She examines Butlers core ideas, traces the development of her thought from her first book to her most recent work, and assesses Butlers engagements with the philosophies of Hegel, Foucault, Derrida, Irigaray and de Beauvoir, as well as addressing the nature and impact of Butler's writing on feminist theory. Throughout Lloyd is particularly concerned to examine Butler's political theory, including her critical interventions in such contemporary political controversies as those surrounding gay marriage, hate-speech, human rights, and September 11 and its aftermath.

Judith Butler offers an accessible and original contribution to existing debates that will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Abbreviations (p. x)
• Acknowledgements (p. xii)
• 1 Introduction (p. 1)
• Feminism, identity and difference (p. 4)
• From homosexual to gay and lesbian to queer (p. 7)
• The influence of poststructuralism (p. 10)
• Hegel and desiring subjects (p. 13)
• Postscript (p. 23)
• 2 Rethinking Sex and Gender (p. 25)
• The trouble with women (p. 25)
• Feminism and the sex/gender debate (p. 28)
• Denaturalizing sex and gender (p. 30)
• Cultural intelligibility - contesting heteronormativity (p. 33)
• From phenomenology to performativity (p. 36)
• Performing gender (p. 42)
• Women in/and feminism (p. 44)
• Conclusion (p. 46)
• 3 Towards a Subversive Gender Politics (p. 49)
• From parody to politics (p. 50)
• Subversive gender politics (p. 51)
• Performativity and subversion (p. 54)
• Free will versus determinism (p. 57)
• Enter iterability (p. 61)
• The ambivalence of drag (p. 66)
• The matter of bodies (p. 68)
• Politicizing abjection - making bodies matter (p. 74)
• Conclusion (p. 76)
• 4 Psychoanalysis and the Gendered Subject (p. 78)
• Gender Trouble and psychoanalysis (p. 79)
• Rubin and 'The Traffic in Women' (p. 80)
• Freud and Oedipus (p. 82)
• Melancholic gender identifications (p. 83)
• Melancholia and performativity (p. 85)
• Lacan and Oedipus (p. 88)
• Assuming sex (p. 89)
• Locating resistance (p. 91)
• Kinship matters (p. 93)
• Psychic subjectivity (p. 97)
• Passionate attachment and primary dependency (p. 99)
• Resisting Butler (p. 102)
• Conclusion (p. 105)
• 5 'Talking Back' - Resignification and Politics (p. 107)
• Words that Wound (p. 108)
• The force of the performative (p. 110)
• Opposing sovereign performatives (p. 113)
• A linguistic account of subjectivity (p. 115)
• Linguistic subjectivity and responsibility (p. 118)
• Revisiting agency - politics and resignification (p. 120)
• Against the state (p. 126)
• Conclusion (p. 133)
• 6 What Makes for a Liveable Life? (p. 134)
• Normative violence and questions of liveability (p. 135)
• Corporeal vulnerability (p. 138)
• Mourning and grief (p. 141)
• Questions of recognition (p. 143)
• What's wrong with 'desiring the state's desire'? (p. 146)
• The politics of radical democracy (p. 148)
• Cultural translation (p. 150)
• Conclusion (p. 154)
• Notes (p. 157)
• Bibliography (p. 182)
• Index (p. 197)

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