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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity [1] [2] is a book by the post-structuralist gender theorist and philosopher Judith Butler in which the author argues that gender is performative, meaning that it is maintained, created or perpetuated by iterative repetitions when speaking and interacting with each other.
- Judith P. Butler
- 272 (UK paperback edition)
- 1990
- 1990
case of Gender Trouble. In 1989 I was most concerned to criticize a pervasive heterosexual assumption in feminist literary theory. I sought to counter those views that made presumptions about the limits and propriety of gender and restricted the meaning of gender to received notions of masculinity and femininity.
May 30, 2006 · ABSTRACT. 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 ...
- Judith P. Butler
- 1990
May 23, 2013 · Gender trouble by Judith P. Butler. Publication date 1999 Topics Feminist theory, Sex role, Sex differences (Psychology), Identity (Psychology), Femininity Publisher
Jan 1, 2001 · Gender Trouble is a radical, founding text of queer theory which exposes gender as a performative construct, and *cue stretched-out drumroll* Sex (M/F) as a prohibitive one. Butler demonstrates her point in the book armed with a great deal of criticism on post-structuralism, feminist foundationalism, essentialism and the likes.
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- Paperback
Sep 1, 1999 · Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works 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.
May 6, 2024 · In Gender Trouble, Butler questioned the validity of much feminist political theorizing by suggesting that the subject whose oppression those theories attempted to explain—“women”—is an exclusionary construct that “achieves stability and coherence only in the context of the heterosexual matrix.” Their suspicion of the category led ...
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