Gender trouble : feminism and the subversion identity 2nd ed.

Author

• Butler, Judith

Additional Author(s)

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Publisher

New York: Rouledge, 2007

Language

English

ISBN

9780415389556

Series

Subject(s)

• FEMINISM-PHILOSOPHY
• IDENTITY (PSYCHOLOGY)

Notes

. Bibliography: p. 205-228. Index: p. 229-236

Abstract

With intellectual reference points that include Foucault and Freud, Wittig, Kristeva and Irigaray, this is one of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years and is perhaps the essential work of contemporary feminist thought.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

xxxvi, 236 p.

Dimension

20 cm.

Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

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 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

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