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1	Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity more books like this by Judith P Butler 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 ... see all copies from $8.97! new only from $15.19! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex more books like this by Judith P Butler In "Bodies That Matter," Judith Butler further develops her distinctive theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most "material" dimensions of sex and sexuality. Deepening the inquiries she began in "Gender" "Trouble," Butler offers an original reformulation of the materiality of bodies, examining how the power of heterosexual ... see all copies from $22.00! new only from $24.85! \| SVS
3	Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence more books like this by Judith P Butler Written after September 11, 2001, in response to the conditions of heightened vulnerability and aggression that have prevailed since then, Judith Butler critiques the use of violence and argues for a response in which violence might be minimized, and interdependency becomes acknowledged as the basis for global political community. Following the ... see all copies from $4.72! new only from $10.38! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	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 practice - one responsive to the need for critical autonomy and grounded in a new sense of the human subject. Butler takes as her starting point one's ability to answer the questions "What have I ... see all copies from $13.74! new only from $13.74! \| SVS
5	Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death more books like this by Judith P Butler The celebrated author of "Gender Trouble" here redefines Antigone's legacy, recovering her revolutionary significance and liberating it for a progressive feminism and sexual politics. Butler's new interpretation does nothing less than reconceptualize the incest taboo in relation to kinship - and open up the concept of kinship to cultural change. ... see all copies from $8.16! new only from $8.16! \| SVS
6	Undoing Gender more books like this by Judith P Butler In her classic work Gender Trouble - a book that changed the face of gender studies - Judith Butler presented the idea of "gender performativity"-the notion that we all 'do' gender in some way. In her new collection of essays, Butler clarifies the critical task of "undoing gender" when its terms are produced in the service of regulatory and ... see all copies from $25.93! new only from $33.26! \| SVS
7	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 best-selling 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 ... see all copies from $27.24! new only from $27.24!
8	Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left more books like this by Judith P Butler, Slavoj Zizek, Ernesto Laclau What is the contemporary legacy of Gramsci's notion of Hegemony? How can universality be reformulated now that its spurious versions have been so thoroughly criticized? In this ground-breaking project, Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Zizek engage in a dialogue on central questions of contemporary philosophy and politics. Their essays, ... see all copies from $12.75! new only from $13.20! \| SVS
9	Gender Trouble: Tenth Anniversary Edition more books like this by Judith P Butler In this highly-acclaimed subversive book, Butler examines the trouble' with unproblematized appeals to sex/gender identities. 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 ... see all copies from $17.63! new only from $22.95!
10	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 KojA]ve, Hyppolite, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze, and Foucault, presenting how French reception of Hegel posed successive challenges to ... see all copies from $13.79! new only from $19.37! \| SVS
11 view cover	The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection more books like this by Judith P Butler As a form of power, subjection is paradoxical. To be dominated by a power external to oneself is a familiar and agonizing form power takes. To find, however, that what one is, one's very formation as a subject, is dependent upon that very power is quite another. If, following Foucault, we understand power as forming the subject as well, it ... see all copies from $14.00! new only from $17.19! \| SVS
12 view cover	Feminists Theorize the Political more books like this by Judith P Butler The use of theory' in feminist analysis has been said to threaten feminism as a political force. This collection of work by leading feminist scholars engages with the question of the political status of poststructuralist theory within feminism. Against the view that poststructuralism necessarily weakens feminism, Feminists Theorize the Political ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $25.58! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Loss: The Politics of Mourning more books like this by David L Eng (Editor), David Kazanjian (Editor), Judith P Butler (Afterword by) Taking stock of a century of pervasive loss - of warfare, disease, and political strife - this text provides a view on both the past and the future by considering "what is lost" in terms of "what remains". Such a perspective, these essays suggest, engages and reanimates history. Plumbing the cultural and political implications of loss, the authors ... see all copies from $28.40! new only from $31.95! \| SVS
14 view cover	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 that the true motivation behind anti-discrimination laws should be acknowledged: that they exist not to uphold the inherent dignity of persons but to change society, to make it better and more just. Claiming that the prevailing logic - that of upholding dignity - is misguided, ... see all copies from $4.33! new only from $7.83! \| SVS
15 view cover	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) A debate on the politics of theory is being conducted within literary studies. What is meant by politics? What is meant by theory? What's Left of Theory? is a vigorous engagement with the question : how today are theory and progressive thought connected? This book brings together not only outstanding questioners, but outstanding questions. see all copies from $17.75! new only from $25.58! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Erotic Welfare: Sexual Theory and Politics in the Age of Epidemic more books like this by Linda Singer, Judith P. Butler (Editor) The emergence of AIDS in contemporary culture has not only produced a vast discourse on the disease but has provoked an anxious proliferation of sites of erotic danger. In Erotic Welfare , Linda Singer argues that we are currently living in an "age of epidemic", fueled by a "panic logic" in which contemporary discourse on sexuality and on a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
17 view cover	The Judith Butler Reader more books like this by Sara Salih (Editor), Judith P Butler Judith Butler's work has challenged and changed the frames of reference within which people speak, think, and live categories of identity. Her innovative and politically far-reaching insight that gender is performative and that identity is a scene of construction continues to exert a crucial impact in numerous critical-theoretical fields, ... see all copies from $36.87! new only from $36.87! \| SVS
18 view cover	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) What is a promise? What are the consequences of the act of promising? In this bold yet subtle meditation, the author contemplates the seductive promise of speech and the seductive promise of love. Imagining an encounter between Moliere's Don Juan and J. L. Austin, between a mythical figure of the French classical theater and a twentieth-century ... see all copies from $15.02! new only from $15.02! \| SVS
19 view cover	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 ... see all copies from $23.48! new only from $23.49!
20 view cover	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 that the true motivation behind anti-discrimination laws should be acknowledged: that they exist not to uphold the inherent dignity of persons but to change society, to make it better and more just. Claiming that the prevailing logic - that of upholding dignity - is misguided, ... see all copies from $19.88! new only from $19.93!
21 view cover	Mecanismos Psiquicos del Poder more books like this by Judith Butler see all copies from $20.88!

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