Gender trouble feminism and the subversion of identity by Judith Butler

By:

Butler, Judith

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Thinking genderPublication details: New York London Routledge 1990ISBN:

0415900433

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DDC classification:

305.4 BUT

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))		Available		39002000096033
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Main Collection	305.4 BUT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002000298514

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Ever since feminist theory introduced the distinction between sex and gender, the question of what it means to be a woman has preoccupied feminist thought. In GenderTrouble Judith Butler questions whether it is possible to "be" a woman at all or, for that matter, any gender.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Preface (1999) (p. vii)
Preface (1990) (p. xxvii)
1 Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire (p. 3)
I "Women" as the Subject of Feminism (p. 3)
II The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire (p. 9)
III Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate (p. 11)
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. 33)
2 Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix (p. 45)
I Structuralism's Critical Exchange (p. 49)
II Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade (p. 55)
III Freud and the Melancholia of Gender (p. 73)
IV Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification (p. 84)
V Reformulating Prohibition as Power (p. 91)
3 Subversive Bodily Acts (p. 101)
I The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva (p. 101)
II Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity (p. 119)
III Monique Wittig: Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex (p. 141)
IV Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions (p. 163)
Conclusion: From Parody to Politics (p. 181)
Notes (p. 191)
Index (p. 217)

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)