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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Butler, Judith, 1956-

Series:

Routledge classics.

Routledge classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminist theory.

Sex role.

Sex differences (Psychology).

Identity (Psychology).

Femininity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2007.

Summary:

One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is 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.

Contents:

1. Subjects of sex/gender/desire

I "Women" as the subject of feminism

II The compulsory order of sex/gender/desire

III Gender : the circular ruins of contemporary debate

IV Theorizing the binary, the unitary, and beyond

V Identity, sex, and the metaphysics of substance

VI Language, power, and the strategies of displacement

2. Prohibition, psychoanalysis, and the production of the heterosexual matrix

I Structuralism's critical exchange

II Lacan, Riviere, and the strategies of masquerade

III Freud and the melancholia of gender

IV Gender complexity and the limits of identification

V Reformulating prohibition as power

3. Subversive bodily acts

I The body politics of Julia Kristeva

II Foucault, Herculine, and the politics of sexual discontinuity

III Monique Wittig : bodily disintegration and fictive sex

IV Bodily inscriptions, performative subversions

Conclusion : From parody to politics

Notes

Index.

Notes:

First published 1990 by Routledge.

First published in Routledge classics 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780203824979 (ebook)

9781138834729 (hbk.)

9780415389556 (pbk.)

9780203824979

0203824970

9781136783241

1136783245

OCLC:

900420283