Gender Trouble

Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
1. Auflage 1990
ISBN: 978-0-415-90043-0
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 181 g

Reihe: Thinking Gender

Ever since feminist theory introduced the distinction between sex and gender, the question of what it means to be a woman has preoccupied feminist thought. In Gender Trouble Judith Butler questions whether it is possible to "be" a woman at all or, for that matter, any gender.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Butler, Judith

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Idenity, 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 Laca, 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 Subervsions
Conclusion: From Parody to Politics

Über Autor(innen)

Judith Butler teaches in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.