Gender trouble : feminism and the subversion of identity / Judith Butler ; with an introduction by the author.
By: Butler, Judith [author]
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BookSeries: Routledge classics: Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2006Description: xxxvi, 236 pages ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415389556 (paperback); 0415389550 (paperback).Subject(s): Feminist theory | Sex role | Sex differences (Psychology) | Identity (Psychology) | FemininityDDC classification: 305.3
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 305.3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 08/02/2024 | 00230028 |
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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)