Gender trouble : feminism and the subversion of identity / Judith Butler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Butler, Judith, 1956-

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Sex role.

Sex differences (Psychology).

Identity (Psychology).

Femininity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiii, 221 pages.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, ©1999.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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. As Judith Butler writes in the major essay that stands as preface to the new edition, one point of "Gender Trouble" was 'not to prescribe a new gendered way of life, but to open of the field of possibility for gender.' Widely taught, and widely debated, "Gender Trouble" continues to offer a powerful critique of heteronormativity and of the function of gender in the modern world. Judith Butler's new preface situates "Gender Trouble" within the past decade of work on gender, and counters some common misconceptions about the book and its aims.

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

Conclusion: From Parody to Politics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-216) and index.

Originally published: New York : Routledge, 1990.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780203902752

0203902750

Publisher Number:

99976896893

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