Judith Butler: Sexual Politics, Social Change and the Power of the Performative / Edition 1

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Judith Butler's work on gender, sexuality, identity, and the body has proved massively influential across a range of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. It is also notoriously difficult to access. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Butler's work, plus a critical examination of it and its precursors, both feminist (including Simone de Beauvoir, Monique Wittig, Julia Kristeva, and Luce Irigaray), and non-feminist (including Erving Goffman, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida). Topics covered include: gender as performance and performativity; sociological notions of performance; the materiality of the body and the role of biology; power, identity and social regulation; Butler's shifting relation to psychoanalysis; melancholia and gender identity; performativity and 'race'; subjectivity, agency and feminist political practice; and social change and transformation.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780415219747
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publication date: 3/12/2008
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 200
  • Product dimensions: 6.14 (w) x 9.21 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Gender as performance and performative 17

2 Body matters: from construction to materialization 51

3 Performativity, subjection and the possibility of agency 89

4 The politics of the performative: hate speech, pornography and 'race' 115

5 Beyond identity politics: gender, transgender and sexual difference 137

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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