Gender Trouble
Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
by Judith Butler

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Author(s)

Judith Butler

Publication

New York ; London : Routledge, 2007

Scope

236 Pages, 19.5 cm.

ISBN

9780415389556

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Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine'. Best known however, but also most often misinterpreted, is Butler's concept of gender as a reiterated social performance rather than the expression of a prior reality.

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Keywords

queer theory

Location

Cabinet 30 - 5: Seksualiteit ; gender en ruimte

Remarks

First published in 1990 ; Incl. bibliographical references and Index.