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12 hours ago · Parent (s) Joachim and Anne (according to some apocryphal writings) Mary [b] was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, [6] the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus. She is a central figure of Christianity, venerated under various titles such as virgin or queen, many of them mentioned in the Litany of Loreto.
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12 hours ago · Jack London was born January 12, 1876. His mother, Flora Wellman, was the fifth and youngest child of Pennsylvania Canal builder Marshall Wellman and his first wife, Eleanor Garrett Jones.
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Judith Butler was born on February 24, 1956, in Cleveland, Ohio, to a family of Hungarian-Jewish and Russian-Jewish descent. Most of their maternal grandmother's family perished in the Holocaust. Butler's parents were practicing Reform Jews. Their mother was raised Orthodox, eventually becoming Conservative and then Reform, while their father was r...
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution
In the essay "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory" Judith Butler proposes that gender is performative. Because gender identity is established through behavior, there is a possibility to construct different genders via different behaviors.
Gender Trouble
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity was first published in 1990, selling over 100,000 copies internationally, in multiple languages. Gender Trouble discusses the works of Sigmund Freud, Simone de Beauvoir, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Lacan, Luce Irigaray, Monique Wittig, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault. Butler offers a critique of the terms gender and sex as they have been used by feminists. Butler argues that feminism made a mistake in trying to make "women" a discrete,...
Imitation and Gender Insubordination
Judith Butler explores the production of identities such as homosexual and heterosexualand the limiting nature of identity categories. An identity category for Butler is a result of certain exclusions and concealments, and thus a site of regulation. Butler acknowledges, however, that categorized identities are important for political action at the present time. Butler believes that identity forms through repetition or imitation and is not original. Butler also states that imitation fosters th...
Butler's work has been influential in feminist and queer theory, cultural studies, and continental philosophy. Yet their contribution to a range of other disciplines—such as psychoanalysis, literary, film, and performance studies as well as visual arts—has also been significant. Their theory of gender performativity as well as their conception of "...
Much of Butler's early political activism centered around queer and feminist issues, and they served, for a period of time, as the chair of the board of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. Over the years, Butler has been particularly active in the gay and lesbian rights, feminist, and anti-war movements. They have also writte...
Butler is a lesbian, legally non-binary, and goes by she or they pronouns. They live in Berkeley with their partner Wendy Brownand son, Isaac.
Butler has had a visiting appointment at Birkbeck, University of London(2009–). 1. 1999: Guggenheim Fellowship 2. 2007: Elected to the American Philosophical Society 3. 2008: Mellon Award for their exemplary contributions to scholarship in the humanities 4. 2010: "25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World", Utne Reader 5. 2012: Theodor W. Adorno A...
All of Butler's books have been translated into numerous languages; Gender Trouble, alone, has been translated into twenty-seven languages. In addition, they have co-authored and edited over a dozen volumes—the most recent of which is Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (2013), coauthored with Athena Athanasiou. Over the years Butler h...
Biography – University of California, BerkeleyWorks by or about Judith Butler in libraries (WorldCatcatalog)Avital Ronell, Judith Butler, Hélène Cixous on YouTubeapproach the notion of affinity through a discussion of "Disruptive Kinship," co-sponsored by Villa Gillet and the School of Writing at The New...Interview of Judith Butler about their new book "Frames of War" on New Statesman12 hours ago · John Alan Lasseter ( / ˈlæsətər / LASS-ə-tər; born January 12, 1957) [5] is an American film director, producer, and animator. He has served as the Head of Animation at Skydance Animation since 2019. [6] Previously, he acted as the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney Animation Studios, and Disneytoon Studios, as ...
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12 hours ago · The Blacklist is an American crime drama television series that premiered on NBC on September 23, 2013. Raymond "Red" Reddington (James Spader), a former government agent turned high-profile criminal, who had eluded capture for decades, voluntarily surrenders to the FBI, offering to cooperate on capturing a list of criminals who are virtually impossible to catch.
12 hours ago · Scott confronted Jean and demands that she read his mind; Jean finally complied, only to discover that Scott and Emma never engaged in any physical contact, though Emma had offered it. Revived, Frost was able to name her attempted murderer: Esme of the Stepford Cuckoos, who had mind-controlled fellow student Angel Salvadore into shooting Frost ...
12 hours ago · Kinofilme. Raumschiff Enterprise – Das nächste Jahrhundert ist eine US-amerikanische Science-Fiction - Fernsehserie, die in den Vereinigten Staaten von 1987 bis 1994 unter dem Originaltitel Star Trek: The Next Generation erstausgestrahlt wurde. Hauptsächlich in Fan-Kreisen wird sie mit TNG abgekürzt. Sie ist eine Nachfolgeserie von ...
