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feminism and the subversion of identity

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Gender trouble

feminism and the subversion of identity

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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.

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Routledge
Language
English
Pages
221

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Cover of: Gender Trouble
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
May 12, 2006, Routledge
in English
Cover of: Trouble dans le genre
Cover of: Gender Trouble (Tenth Anniversary Edition)
Gender Trouble (Tenth Anniversary Edition)
September 1999, Routledge
in English
Cover of: Gender trouble
Gender trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity
1999, Routledge
in English
Cover of: Gender trouble
Gender trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity
1990, Routledge
in English

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Edition Notes

Originally published: New York : Routledge, 1990.

"10th Anniversary edition."--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-216) and index.

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New York

Classifications

Library of Congress
HQ1154 .B88 1999, HQ1154.B88 1999, HQ1154 .B88 1999eb

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxiii, 221 p. ;
Number of pages
221

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL15548671M
Internet Archive
gendertroublefem00butl
ISBN 10
0415924995
LCCN
99029349
OCLC/WorldCat
41326734, 50506678
Library Thing
29236
Wikidata
Q120482864
Goodreads
622757

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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.
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