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Butler, Judith, 1956-

Gender trouble : feminism and the subversion of identity / Judith Butler. - New York : Routledge, 1990. - xxiii, 221 pages ; 24 cm. ; pbk. - Thinking gender . - Thinking gender. .

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects of sex/gender/desire. "Women" as the subject of feminism ; The compulsory order of sex/gender/desire ; Gender : the circular ruins of contemporary debate ; Theorizing the binary, the unitary, and beyond ; Identity, sex, and the metaphysics of substance ; Language, power, and the strategies of displacement -- Prohibition, psychoanalysis, and the production of the heterosexual matrix. Structuralism's critical exchange ; Lacan, Riviere, and the strategies of masquerade ; Freud and the melancholia of gender ; Gender complexity and the limits of identification ; Reformulating prohibition as power -- Subversive bodily acts. The body politics of Julia Kristeva ; Foucault, Herculine, and the politics of sexual discontinuity ; Monique Wittig : bodily disintegration and fictive sex ; Bodily inscriptions, performative subversions -- Conclusion: From parody to politics. Preface -- 1. 2. 3.

ISBN: 0415900425 9780415900423 0415900433 9780415900430 0415924995 9780415924993

LCCN: 89006438

Nat. Bib. No.: GB8901260 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: BA10025544 JP-ToKJK 010405078 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Feminist theory.
Sex role.
Sex differences (Psychology)
Identity (Psychology)
Femininity.
Gender studies, gender groups

Subjects--Index Terms: Man Sexes Cultural aspects

LC Class. No.: / .B88 1990

Dewey Class. No.: 305.3