Gender Trouble

Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Thinking Gender)

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Gender Trouble

Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Thinking Gender)

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  • 4 Ratings
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  • 5 Currently reading
  • 9 Have read

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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Cover of: Gender Trouble
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
May 12, 2006, Routledge
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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
Cover of: Gender Trouble

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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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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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