An Analysis of Judith Butler's Gender Trouble - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Analysis of Judith Butler's Gender Trouble write by Tim Smith-Laing. This book was released on 2017-07-05. An Analysis of Judith Butler's Gender Trouble available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is a perfect example of creative thinking. The book redefines feminism's struggle against patriarchy as part of a much broader issue: the damaging effects of all our assumptions about gender and identity. Looking at the factionalism of contemporary (1980s) feminism, Butler saw a movement split by identity politics. Riven by arguments over what it meant to be a women, over sexuality, and over class and race, feminism was falling prey to internal problems of identity, and was failing to move towards broader solidarity with other liberation movements such as LGBT. Butler turned these issues on their head by questioning the basis that supposedly fundamental and fixed identities such as 'masculine/feminine' or 'straight/gay' actually have. Tracing these binary definitions back to the binary nature of human anatomy ('male/female'), she argues that there is no necessary link between our anatomies and our identities. Subjecting a wide range of evidence from philosophy, cultural theory, anthropology, psychology and anthropology to a renewed search for meaning, Butler shows both that sex (biology) and gender (identity) are separate, and that even biological sex is not simplistically either/or male/female. Separating our biology from identity then allows her to argue that, while categories such as 'masculine/feminine/straight/gay' are real, they are not necessary; rather, they are the product of society's assumptions, and the constant reproduction of those assumptions by everyone around us. That opens up some small hope for change: a hope that – 25 years after Gender Trouble's publication – is having a huge impact on societies and politics across the world.
Gender Trouble
Gender Trouble - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gender Trouble write by Judith Butler. This book was released on 2011-09-22. Gender Trouble available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With intellectual reference points that include Foucault and Freud, Wittig, Kristeva and Irigaray, this is one of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years and is perhaps the essential work of contemporary feminist thought.
Bodies That Matter
Bodies That Matter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bodies That Matter write by Judith Butler. This book was released on 2014-09-03. Bodies That Matter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power operates to constrain "sex" from the start, delimiting what counts as a viable sex. She offers a clarification of the notion of "performativity" introduced in Gender Trouble and explores the meaning of a citational politics. The text includes readings of Plato, Irigaray, Lacan, and Freud on the formation of materiality and bodily boundaries; "Paris is Burning," Nella Larsen's "Passing," and short stories by Willa Cather; along with a reconsideration of "performativity" and politics in feminist, queer, and radical democratic theory.
Undoing Gender
Undoing Gender - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Undoing Gender write by Judith Butler. This book was released on 2004-10-22. Undoing Gender available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory, Butler considers the norms that govern--and fail to govern--gender and sexuality as they relate to the constraints on recognizable personhood. The book constitutes a reconsideration of her earlier view on gender performativity from Gender Trouble. In this work, the critique of gender norms is clearly situated within the framework of human persistence and survival. And to "do" one's gender in certain ways sometimes implies "undoing" dominant notions of personhood. She writes about the "New Gender Politics" that has emerged in recent years, a combination of movements concerned with transgender, transsexuality, intersex, and their complex relations to feminist and queer theory.
Study Guide: Gender Trouble by Judith Butler (SuperSummary)
Study Guide: Gender Trouble by Judith Butler (SuperSummary) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Study Guide: Gender Trouble by Judith Butler (SuperSummary) write by SuperSummary. This book was released on 2018-12-21. Study Guide: Gender Trouble by Judith Butler (SuperSummary) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. SuperSummary, a modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, offers high-quality study guides for challenging works of literature. This 51-page guide for "Gender Trouble" by Judith Butler includes detailed chapter summaries and analysis covering 3 chapters, as well as several more in-depth sections of expert-written literary analysis. Featured content includes commentary on major characters, 25 important quotes, essay topics, and key themes like Gender As Performative and Feminism and Queer Theory.
