Gender trouble : feminism and the subversion of identity

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 ques...

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1. Verfasser: Butler, Judith Pamela, 1956-...., philosophe (VerfasserIn eines Geleitwortes)
Format: Livre papier
Sprache:Anglais
Veröffentlicht: New York ; London : Routledge C 1990.
Schriftenreihe:Routledge classics
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Anmerkung: Autres tirages : 1999, 2006, 2007
Autres localisations: Voir dans le Sudoc
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire
  • I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism
  • II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire
  • III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate
  • IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond
  • V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance
  • VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement
  • 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix
  • I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange
  • II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade
  • III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender
  • IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification
  • V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power
  • 3. Subversive Bodily Acts
  • I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva
  • II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity
  • III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex
  • IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions
  • Conclusion - From Parody to Politics