Title: Gender trouble. Feminism and the subversion of identity Author: Judith Butler Created Date: 20060708120235Z Judith Butler (b.1956) received a PhD in philosophy from Yale in 1984, with a thesis on Hegelian influences in France. She is the Maxine Elliot professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley. Butler’s collection of essays, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, written in… Well, immediate disclosure: I largely agree with her ideas. But I will run through the ways in which she might (and should, in the case of the last ‘graph) be critiqued. Since her arguments are predicated on the effect of something impossible to d... Queer theory was developed by Judith Butler in her post-modern feminist text, “Gender Trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity” (Horitar, 2015). She discussed the role that gender and sexual orientation play in the way in which society uses this concepts in order to place individuals in a specific category on the basis on how they ... Judith Butler, American academic whose theories of the performative nature of gender and sex were influential within Francocentric philosophy, cultural theory, queer theory, and some schools of philosophical feminism from the late 20th century. Her best-known book is Gender Trouble (1990). 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 ... Butler, Judith P. Gender trouble : feminism and the su bversion of identity / Judith Butler. ... and to distinguish between self-criticism that promises a more democ-ratic and inclusive life for the movement and criticism that seeks to undermine it altogether. Of course, it is always possible to misread the ... Gender Trouble sold over 100,000 copies and inspired the fanzine Judy! For an archive of works that cite Butler, click here . Despite her popularity with the public and profile in academic circles, Butler has come under heavy criticism, particularly from fellow feminists. Gender Trouble, By Judith Butler. This article defines what Butler in her book Judith Butler introduction gender trouble chapter one: “subjects of sex/gender/desire” wants to convey to the reader. Butler presumes that there is an already accessible feminist known as "women.' Preface (1999) Ten years ago I completed the manuscript of Gender Trouble and sent it to Routledge for publication. I did not know that the text would have as wide an audience as it has had, nor ...
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