Butler Matters Judith Butler's Impact on Feminist and Queer Studies

Since the 1990 publication of Gender Trouble, Judith Butler has had a profound influence on how we understand gender and sexuality, corporeal politics, and political action both within and outside the academy. This collection, which considers not only Gender Trouble but also Bodies That Matter, Exci...

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Main Author Blumenfeld, Warren J.
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Routledge 2005
Taylor and Francis
Taylor & Francis Group
Ashgate
Edition1
Subjects
Activism
Archaeology
Body
Butler, Judith
Critical Theory
Feminism
Feminist theory
Gender
Gender roles
Gender Studies
Homosexuality
Identity
Language
Literary
Literature & Gender Studies
Queer theory
Sex role
Sex roles
Sexuality
Social & Cultural History
Social theory
Women's & Gender History
Judith Butler
Gender Trouble
Homosexual Attachment
Butler's Account
Judith Butler's Work
Psychic Life
Judith Butler's Impact
Queer Theory
Young Men
Nussbaum's Critique
Politicized Abjection
Butler's Work
Violating
Gender Transgressive Performance
Mae West
Krafft Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis
Excitable Speech
Discursive Performativity
Butler's Theory
Geek Love
Abject Body
Butler's Excitable Speech
Wo
Feminist Political Practice
Butler's Concept
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- PART I: INTRODUCTION -- 1 Introduction to the Collection -- 2 ' There is a Person Here': An Interview with Judith Butler -- 3 Becoming Butlerian: On the Discursive Limits (and Potentials) of Gender Trouble -- PART II: LANGUAGE, MELANCHOLIA, AND SUBJECTIVITY -- 4 When All That is Solid Melts into Language -- 5 Judith Butler and the Images of Theory -- 6 The Plague of the Subject: Subjects, Politics, and the Power of Psychic Life -- 7 Excitable Speech: Judith Butler, Mae West, and Sexual Innuendo -- PART III: BODY MATTERS: ARCHAEOLOGY, LITERATURE, AND PEDAGOGY -- 8 Past Performance: The Archaeology of Gender as Influenced by the Work of Judith Butler -- 9 Renaissance Body Matters: Judith Butler and the Sex That is One -- 10 Gender Trouble in the Literature Classroom: Unintelligible Genders in The Metamorphosis and The Well of Loneliness -- 11 Butler's Corporeal Politics: Matters of Politicized Abjection -- PART IV: AGENCY, POSTSTRUCTURALISM, AND PRAGMATISM -- 12 Strange Tempest: Agency, Poststructuralism, and the Shape of Feminist Politics to Come -- 13 Changing Signs: The Political Pragmatism of Poststructuralism -- Index