Judith Butler (1)

This page covers the author of Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.

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Judith Butler was born in 1956. She is nationally known for her writings on gender and sexuality. She argues that men and women are not dissimilar and that the notion they are is cultural not biological in books such as Bodies That Matter: On The Discursive Limits Of "Sex" (1993), Excitable Speech: Contemporary Scenes Of Politics (1996), and The Psychic Life Of Power: Theories In Subjection (1997). In Gender Trouble (1990), the title a play on John Waters' camp classic Female Trouble (1975), Butler claims that both gender and drag are a kind of imitation for which there is no original. A professor of philosophy at University of California at Berkeley, Butler attended Yale, receiving a B.A. in 1978 and a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1984. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity… (more)

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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity 3,065 copies, 20 reviews

Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex 1,044 copies, 4 reviews

Undoing Gender 660 copies, 4 reviews

Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence 480 copies, 3 reviews

The Psychic Life of Power 381 copies

Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left 327 copies, 1 review

Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative 325 copies, 1 review

Giving an Account of Oneself 306 copies, 3 reviews

Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? 280 copies, 3 reviews

Antigone's Claim 211 copies, 4 reviews

The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind 183 copies, 3 reviews

Feminists Theorize the Political (Editor) 181 copies

Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange 121 copies, 1 review

Who sings the Nation-State? Language, politics, belonging 120 copies, 1 review

Subjects of Desire 113 copies, 2 reviews

Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (Mary Flexner Lectures of… 91 copies

The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere (A Columbia / SSRC Book) 87 copies

Senses of the Subject 74 copies

Dispossession: The Performative in the Political 74 copies

Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism 72 copies, 1 review

What's Left of Theory?: New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory… 41 copies

Vulnerability in Resistance 31 copies

What World Is This?: A Pandemic Phenomenology 24 copies, 2 reviews

Könet brinner! : texter 17 copies

The Question of Gender: Joan W. Scott's Critical Feminism (21st Century… 13 copies

CUERPOS ALIADOS Y LUCHA POLÍTICA 9 copies

Qu'est qu'une vie bonne ? 7 copies

Resistencias. Un libro de Judith Butler 6 copies, 1 review

VULNERABILITAT, SUPERVIVENCIA / VULNERABILITY, SURVIVABILITY 6 copies

Humain, inhumain : Le Travail critique des normes - Entretiens 5 copies

Violencia de Estado, guerra, resistencia. Por una nueva política de la… 5 copies

Sin miedo: Formas de resistencia a la violencia de hoy (Pensamiento)… 3 copies

Studyguide for Gender Trouble by Butler, ISBN 9780415924993 (Cram101… 3 copies

Krieg und Affekt 3 copies

Occupy Anarchy! : Libertäre Interventionen in eine neue Bewegung 3 copies

La vita psichica del potere 2 copies

Rassemblement: pluralité, performativité et politique 2 copies

Judith Butler: To Sense What is Living in the Other, Hegel's Early… 2 copies

Imitation and Gender Insubordination (The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader) 2 copies

Spoliazione: I senza casa, senza patria, senza cittadinanza 2 copies

Due letture del giovane Marx 2 copies

Der Blaue Reiter. Journal für Philosophie / Liebe 1 copy

“Imitation and Gender Insubordination” 1 copy

Who's Afraid of Gender? 1 copy

Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and… 1 copy

The Livable and the Unlivable 1 copy

“Gender Is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion” 1 copy

Queer : género, performatividad y agencia 1 copy

WITTIG'S MATERIAL PRACTICE: Universalizing a Minority Point of View 1 copy

Konturen des Unentschiedenen Interventionen 1 copy

Vargas dėl lyties: feminizmas ir tapatybės subversija 1 copy

The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere (A Columbia / SSRC Book) 1 copy

The queer intersectional in contemporary Germany essays on racism,… 1 copy

Regulaciones de género 1 copy

Che tu sia il mio corpo. Una lettura contemporanea della signoria e della… 1 copy

Merely Cultural 1 copy

Occupy|: teoria e pratica del movimento contro l'oligarchia… 1 copy

Melancholy Gender / Refused Identification {article} 1 copy

Conversations with Judith Butler: Proceedings from the Seminar "Crisis of… 1 copy

Après l'émancipation. Trois voix pour penser la gauche 1 copy

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The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader (Contributor) 403 copies, 1 review

Feminism/Postmodernism (Contributor) 198 copies

Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories (Contributor) 198 copies

The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy (Contributor) 114 copies

Examined Life: Excursions With Contemporary Thinkers (Contributor) 74 copies, 2 reviews

Constructing Masculinity (Contributor) 74 copies, 1 review

Feminism as Critique: Essays on the Politics of Gender in Late-Capitalist… (Contributor) 71 copies

Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the… (Contributor) 68 copies, 1 review

The Cambridge Companion to Merleau-Ponty (Contributor) 66 copies, 1 review

Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a… (Contributor) 45 copies

Performativity and Performance (Essays from the English Institute) (Contributor, some editions) 43 copies

A Field Guide to White Supremacy (Contributor) 39 copies

Playing with Fire: Queer Politics, Queer Theories (Contributor) 28 copies

Anarchism & Sexuality: Ethics, Relationships and Power (Contributor) 20 copies

Entendre el món: amb onze pensadors contemporanis (Contributor) 20 copies

Continental Feminism Reader 18 copies

Re-Figuring Hayden White (Cultural Memory in the Present) (Contributor) 11 copies

The Social and Political Body (Contributor) 10 copies

What Is Gender Nihilism? A Reader (Contributor) 9 copies

Undutiful Daughters: New Directions in Feminist Thought and Practice (Contributor) 5 copies

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