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Book Summary of Gender Trouble
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 with examinations of `the masculine` and `the feminine`. Best known however, but also most often misinterpreted, is Butler`s concept of gender as a reiterated social performance rather than the expression of a prior reality.
Thrilling and provocative, few other academic works have roused passions to the same extent.
Table Of Contents
Preface (1999)
Preface (1990)
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 isbn
9780415389556
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Pages : 203
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