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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity more books like this

by Judith P Butler

One of the classic works in feminist theory, originally published in 1990. Judith P. Butler critiques what she calls "heteronormativity" and argues for new ways of looking at gender and sexuality.

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Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex

Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex more books like this

by Judith P Butler

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Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence

Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence more books like this

by Professor Judith Butler

One of America's leading intellectuals responds to the current US policies to wage perpetual war. This profound appraisal of post-9/11 America considers the conditions of heightened vulnerability and aggression that followed from the attack on the US, and US retaliation. Judith Butler critiques the use of violence that has emerged as a response ...

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Gender Trouble: Tenth Anniversary Edition

Gender Trouble: Tenth Anniversary Edition more books like this

by Judith P Butler

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. As Judith Butler writes in the major essay that stands as preface to the new edition, one point of "Gender ...

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Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative

Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative more books like this

by Judith Butler

With the same intellectual courage with which she addressed issues of gender in two earlier bestselling Routledge books, Gender Trouble, and Bodies That Matter, philosopher Judith Butler turns her attention to speech and conduct in contemporary political life, looking at several efforts to target speech as conduct that has become subject to ...

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Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death

Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death more books like this

by Judith P Butler

Butler reinterprets the story of Antigone in light of recent philosophical and gender studies.

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Undoing Gender

Undoing Gender more books like this

by Judith P Butler

Undoing Gender addresses the regulation of sexuality and gender that takes place in psychology, aesthetics, and social policy. These essays revisit the problem of kinship in light of new challenges to the family form, interrogate the meaning and purposes of the incest taboo, and challenge the ways in which intersexuality and transsexuality are ...

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The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection

The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection more books like this

by Judith P Butler

Judith Butler's new book considers the way in which psychic life is generated by the social operation of power, and how that social operation of power is concealed and fortified by the psyche that it produces. It combines social theory, philosophy, and psychoanalysis in novel ways, and offers a more sustained analysis of the theory of subject ...

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Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left

Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left more books like this

by Judith P Butler, Slavoj Zizek, Ernesto Laclau

In a compelling and unusual experiment, three eminent theorists engage in a dialogue on central questions of contemporary philosophy and politics. Their essays, organized as separate contributions that respond to one another, range over the Hegelian legacy in contemporary critical theory, the theoretical dilemmas of multiculturalism, the ...

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Giving an Account of Oneself

Giving an Account of Oneself more books like this

by Judith P Butler

What does it mean to lead a moral life?In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practiceaone responsive to the need for critical autonomy and grounded in a new sense of the human subject.Butler takes as her starting point oneas ability to answer the questions aWhat have I done?a ...

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Feminists Theorize the Political more books like this

by Judith P Butler

This anthology represents the diversity of perspectives within feminist theory as well as its highly politicized nature. Each contributor offers an innovative feminist analysis that is in some way motivated by the poststructuralist challenge. Feminists Theorize the Political addresses a wide range of feminist concerns, including reproductive ...

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Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France more books like this

by Judith P Butler

This now classic work by one of the most important philosophers and critics of our time charts the trajectory of desire and its genesis from Hegel's formulation in "Phenomenology of Spirit" through its appropriation by Kojve, Hyppolite, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze, and Foucault, presenting how French reception of Hegel posed successive challenges to ...

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The Judith Butler Reader more books like this

by Sara Salih (Editor), Judith P Butler

"The Judith Butler Reader" is a collection of writings that span her impressive career and trace her intellectual history. Judith Butler, author of influential books such as "Gender Trouble," has built her international reputation as a theorist of power, gender, sexuality and identity. Organized in active collaboration between Judith Butler and ...

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Loss: The Politics of Mourning more books like this

by David L Eng (Editor), David Kazanjian (Editor), Judith P Butler (Afterword by)

Loss is a collection of essays that collectively argue for new ways of understanding the dynamics of mourning, memory, and history in the twentieth century across a wide range of cultures, political contexts, cultures, and artistic productions.

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Prejudicial Appearances- PB more books like this

by Robert Post, Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah, Judith P Butler

In "Prejudicial Appearances" noted legal scholar Robert C. Post argues modern American antidiscrimination law should not be conceived as protecting the transcendental dignity of individual persons but instead as transforming social practices that define and sustain potentially oppressive categories like race or gender. Arguing that the prevailing ...

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Erotic Welfare: Sexual Theory and Politics in the Age of Epidemic more books like this

by Linda Singer, Judith P. Butler (Editor)

A trenchant critique of sexuality in an age of discipline, where bodies and pleasures have become sites of regulatory power.

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What's Left of Theory?: New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory more books like this

by Judith P. Butler (Editor), Kendall Thomas (Editor), John Guillory (Editor)

For several years," write the editors of What's Left of Theory, "a debate on the politics of theory has been conducted energetically within literary studies. The terms of the debate, however, are far from clear. What is meant by politics? What is meant by theory?" What's Left of Theory is a vigorous engagement with that thorniest of critical ...

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The Scandal of the Speaking Body: Don Juan with J.L. Austin, or Seduction in Two Languages more books like this

by Professor Shoshana Felman, Stanley Cavell (Foreword by), Judith P Butler (Afterword by)

Imagining an encounter between Moliere's Don Juan and Austin, this bold yet subtle meditation contemplates the seductive promises of speech and of love, in a telling exchange among philosophy, linguistics, literature, and Lacanian theory.

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Cuerpos Que Importan: Sobre Los Lcmites Materiales y Discursivos del Sexo more books like this

by Judith Butler

This book is devoted to conceptualize ethical decisions in medicine. Brief clinical cases are followed by key discussion questions, such as deciding when not to treat, volunteering children for research, achieving the best doctor-patient relationship, and treating adolescents. This is an invaluable book for medical students and staff members of ...

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Prejudicial Appearances- CL more books like this

by Robert Post, Dr. Kwame Anthony Appiah, Judith Butler

In "Prejudicial Appearances" noted legal scholar Robert C. Post argues modern American antidiscrimination law should not be conceived as protecting the transcendental dignity of individual persons but instead as transforming social practices that define and sustain potentially oppressive categories like race or gender. Arguing that the prevailing ...

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Contingencia, Hegemonia, Universalidad. Dialogos Contemporaneos En La Izquierda more books like this

by Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau

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