Gender trouble : feminism and the subversion of identity /

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Author / Creator:	Butler, Judith, 1956- author.
Imprint:	New York : Routledge, 2007. ©2007
Description:	1 online resource (xxxvi, 236 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge classics Routledge classics.
Subject:	Feminist theory. Sex role. Sex differences (Psychology) Identity (Psychology) Femininity. Femininity. Feminist theory. Identity (Psychology) Sex differences (Psychology) Sex role. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12012522

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ISBN:	9780203824979 0203824970 9781136783241 1136783245 9780203902752 0203902750 1283442086 9781283442084 9780415389556 0415389550 9786613442086 6613442089
Notes:	Originally published: 1999. 2nd ed. Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-228) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	Since its initial publication in 1990, this book has become a key work 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. This is the text where the author began to advance the ideas that would go on to take life as "performativity theory," as well as some of the first articulations of the possibility for subversive gender practices. Overall, this book offers a powerful critique of heteronormativity and of the function of gender in the modern world.
Other form:	Print version: Butler, Judith, 1956- Gender trouble. New York : Routledge, 2007 9780415389556

Table of 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.

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