• ISBN13: 9781138236363
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics
• Publication Date: May 5, 2024
• Pages: 272
• Original Price: INR 595.0
• Language: English
• Edition: 1
• Item Weight: 650 grams
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One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. 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. Thrilling and provocative, few other academic works have roused passions to the same extent.

Judith Butler is Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. They are the author of Subjects of Desire, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Bodies that Matter, Undoing Gender, The Psychic Life of Power, Precarious Life, Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism, Frames of War, Senses of the Subject, The Force of Nonviolence, What World is This? A Pandemic Phenomenology, and Who's Afraid of Gender? Co-edited volumes include: Contingency, Hegemony, Universality with Slavoj Zizek and Ernesto Laclau; Vulnerability in Resistance, with Leticia Sabsay and Zeynep Gambetti. Co-authored books include: Who Sings the Nation-State? with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Dispossession, with Athena Athanasiou, and The Livable and the Unlivable, with Frederic Worms.