Judith Butler : from norms to politics /

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Author / Creator:	Lloyd, Moya, 1960- author
Imprint:	Cambridge Malden, MA : Polity, 2007.
Description:	xiii, 201 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Key contemporary thinkers Key contemporary thinkers (Cambridge, England)
Subject:	Butler, Judith, -- 1956- -- Criticism and interpretation. Butler, Judith, -- 1956- -- Philosophy. Butler, Judith, -- 1956- -- Political and social views. Butler, Judith, -- 1956- Feminist theory. Feminist theory. Philosophy. Political and social views. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6629506

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ISBN:	9780745626116 (hbk.) 0745626114 (hbk.) 0745626122 (pbk.) 9780745626123 (pbk.)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [182]-196) and index.
Summary:	Lloyd explores Butler's core ideas and philosophical engagement, tracing the development of her thought from her first book to her most recent works. With the publication of her highly acclaimed and much-cited book Gender Trouble, Judith Butler became one of the most influential feminist theorists of her generation. Her theory of gender performativity and her writings on corporeality, on the injurious capacity of language, on the vulnerability of human life to violence and on the impact of mourning on politics have, taken together, comprised a substantial and highly original body of work that has a wide and truly cross-disciplinary appeal. In this lively book, Moya Lloyd provides both a clear exposition and an original critique of Butler's work. She examines Butlers core ideas, traces the development of her thought from her first book to her most recent work, and assesses Butlers engagements with the philosophies of Hegel, Foucault, Derrida, Irigaray and de Beauvoir, as well as addressing the nature and impact of Butler's writing on feminist theory. Throughout Lloyd is particularly concerned to examine Butler's political theory, including her critical interventions in such contemporary political controversies as those surrounding gay marriage, hate-speech, human rights, and September 11 and its aftermath. -- Back cover.

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Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
Feminism, identity and difference
From homosexual to gay and lesbian to queer
The influence of poststructuralism
Hegel and desiring subjects
Postscript
2. Rethinking Sex and Gender
The trouble with women
Feminism and the sex/gender debate
Denaturalizing sex and gender
Cultural intelligibility - contesting heteronormativity
From phenomenology to performativity
Performing gender
Women in/and feminism
Conclusion
3. Towards a Subversive Gender Politics
From parody to politics
Subversive gender politics
Performativity and subversion
Free will versus determinism
Enter iterability
The ambivalence of drag
The matter of bodies
Politicizing abjection - making bodies matter
Conclusion
4. Psychoanalysis and the Gendered Subject
Gender Trouble and psychoanalysis
Rubin and 'The Traffic in Women'
Freud and Oedipus
Melancholic gender identifications
Melancholia and performativity
Lacan and Oedipus
Assuming sex
Locating resistance
Kinship matters
Psychic subjectivity
Passionate attachment and primary dependency
Resisting Butler
Conclusion
5. 'Talking Back' - Resignification and Politics
Words that Wound
The force of the performative
Opposing sovereign performatives
A linguistic account of subjectivity
Linguistic subjectivity and responsibility
Revisiting agency - politics and resignification
Against the state
Conclusion
6. What Makes for a Liveable Life?
Normative violence and questions of liveability
Corporeal vulnerability
Mourning and grief
Questions of recognition
What's wrong with 'desiring the state's desire'?
The politics of radical democracy
Cultural translation
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Judith Butler : from norms to politics /

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