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Gender trouble : feminism and the subversion of identity / Judith Butler.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Thinking genderPublication details: New York : Routledge, 1990.Description: xxiii, 221 pages ; 24 cm. ; pbkISBN:
  • 0415900425
  • 9780415900423
  • 0415900433
  • 9780415900430
  • 0415924995
  • 9780415924993
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.3 20
LOC classification:
  • .B88 1990
Other classification:
  • 02.60
  • CI 6388
  • MS 2850
  • MS 3000
Contents:
Preface -- 1. 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 -- 2. 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 -- 3. 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
General Lending Carlow Campus Library General Lending 305.3 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 82419

10.00

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- 1. 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 -- 2. 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 -- 3. 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.

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