Full name: Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex

Author: Judith Butler Year: 1993 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Feminism, Philosophy, Non Fiction, Gay & Lesbian Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780415903660 9780415610155 0415903661 041561015X

In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power operates to constrain sex from the start, delimiting what counts as a viable sex. She clarifies the notion of "performativity" introduced in Gender Trouble and via bold readings of Plato, Irigaray, Lacan, and Freud explores the meaning of a citational politics. She also draws on documentary and literature with compelling interpretations of the film Paris is Burning, Nella Larsen's Passing, and short stories by Willa Cather. Similar books: Undoing Gender by Judith Butler Gender Trouble by Judith Butler Volatile Bodies by Elizabeth Grosz Speculum of the Other Woman by Luce Irigaray Female Masculinity by J. Jack Halberstam Epistemology of the Closet by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Between Men by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Queer Theory by Annamarie Jagose Feminist Theory by Bell Hooks Communion: The Female Search for Love by Bell Hooks Unbearable Weight by Susan Bordo All About Love by Bell Hooks The Rejected Body by Susan Wendell Breaking Bread by Bell Hooks My Gender Workbook by Kate Bornstein Trans Liberation by Leslie Feinberg Excluded by Julia Serano Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin Gaga Feminism by J. Jack Halberstam The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton