ISBN:
9780415389556
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (273 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Classics
Parallel Title:
Print version Gender Trouble
DDC:
305.3
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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.〈/P
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Judith Butler; Copyright; Contents; Preface (1999); Preface (1990); 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 Produc-tion of the Heterosexual Matrix; I Structuralism's critical exchange; II Lacan, Riviere, and the strategies of masquerade
Description / Table of Contents:
III Freud and the melancholia of genderIV 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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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