Full name: Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Author: Judith Butler Year: 1989 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Feminism, Non Fiction, Philosophy, Gay & Lesbian Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780415389556

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas that would go on to take life as "performativity theory," as well as some of the first articulations of the possibility for subversive gender practices, and she writes in her preface to the 10th anniversary edition released in 1999 that one point of Gender Trouble was "not to prescribe a new gendered way of life [...] but to open up the field of possibility for gender [...]" Widely taught, and widely debated, Gender Trouble continues to offer a powerful critique of heteronormativity and of the function of gender in the modern world. Similar books: Undoing Gender by Judith Butler Bodies That Matter by Judith Butler Volatile Bodies by Elizabeth Grosz Speculum of the Other Woman by Luce Irigaray The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir Feminist Theory by Bell Hooks Communion: The Female Search for Love by Bell Hooks All About Love by Bell Hooks Excluded by Julia Serano Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin Redefining Realness by Janet Mock Teaching to Transgress by Bell Hooks I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya Down Girl by Kate Manne Feminism without Borders by Chandra Talpade Mohanty Sexual Politics by Kate Millett The Whole Woman by Germaine Greer The Revolution Starts at Home by Ching-In Chen The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer Only Words by Catharine A. MacKinnon