Gender Trouble
Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
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Word Count
59,000 words, Guess
Page Count
236 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL7494011M
- ISBN-139780415389556
- ISBN-100415389550
- OCLC Control Number1082201075
- OCLC Control Number63679948
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- OCLC Control Numbergendertroublefem0000butl_d7d5
- Library of Congress Control Number2006003260
- LibraryThing29236
- Goodreads85767
- WikidataQ120482787
Classifications
- LCCHQ1154.B88 2006
- DDC305.3
- LCCHQ1154 .B88 1990
Description
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. Thrilling and provocative, few other academic works have roused passions to the same extent.
First Sentence
For the most part, feminist theory has assumed that there is some existing identity, understood through the category of women, who not only initiates feminist interests and goals within discourse, but constitutes the subject for whom political representation is pursued.
Excerpt
For the most part, feminist theory has assumed that there is some existing identity, understood through the category of women, who not only initiates feminist interests and goals within discourse, but constitutes the subject for whom political representation is pursued.
Description
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.
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- Routledge Classics
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- Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
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