Gender Trouble in the Literature Classroom: Unintelligible Genders in The Metamorphosis and The Well of Loneliness

• Published in: Butler Matters pp. 161 - 174
• Main Author: Blumenfeld, Warren J.
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2005
• Subjects: Feminist theory; Gender; Homosexuality; Sex roles; Sexuality; Jeanette Winterson's Oranges; Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues; Early Twentieth Century Fiction; Stephen's Body; Gender Trouble; Kafka's Metamorphosis; Stone Butch Blues; Articulate Gender; Judith Butler's Impact; Desert Of The Heart; Gregor Samsa; Krafft Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis; Psychopathia Sexualis; Kafka's Novella; Gender Dysphoria; Barren; Discursive Imagining; Butlerian Lens; Samsa; Unintelligible Gender; Wo; 13th German Edition; Gregor's Metamorphosis; Gender Metamorphosis; Conventional Christian Morality

In her preface to the 1999 edition of Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Judith Butler asks a series of questions that reveal how gender, particularly the idea of a normative gender, functions as a vehicle for social control.1 She writes:What continues to concern me most is the...