Butler matters : Judith Butler's impact on feminist and queer studies /
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| Imprint: | Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005. |
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| Description: | x, 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5615866 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Part I. Introduction
- Introduction to the collection
- 'There is a person here': an interview with Judith Butler
- Becoming Butlerian: on the discursive limits (and potentials) of Gender Trouble
- Part II. Language, Melancholia, and Subjectivity
- When all that is solid melts into language
- Judith Butler and the images of theory
- The plague of the subject: subjects, politics, and the power of psychic life
- Excitable speech: Judith Butler, Mae West, and sexual innuendo
- Part III. Body Matters
- Archaeology, Literature, and Pedagogy
- Past performance: the archaeology of gender as influenced by the work of Judith Butler
- Renaissance body matters: Judith Butler and the sex that is one
- Gender Trouble in the literature classroom: unintelligible genders in The Metamorphosis and The Well of Loneliness
- Butler's corporeal politics: matters of politicized abjection
- Part IV. Agency, Poststructuralism, and Pragmatism
- Strange tempest: agency, poststructuralism, and the shape of feminist politics to come
- Changing signs: the political pragmatism of poststructuralism
- Index
