Feminism and the subversion of identity can be read as an intervention into feminism. Using contemporary and topical examples from the media, popular culture and everyday life, this lively and accessible introduction shows you how the issues, concepts and theories in butler s work function as sociocultural practices. Judith butler born february 24, 1956, american educator. The performative in the political coauthored with athena athanasiou, 20, senses of the subject 2015, notes toward a performative theory of assembly 2015. Judith butler s article critically queer was published in 1993, three years after her groundbreaking book gender trouble. Check out the new look and enjoy easier access to your favorite features. Undoing gender pdf book by judith butler read online or free download in epub, pdf or mobi ebooks. Rethinking vulnerability and resistance books gateway.
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Oct 22, 2004 undoing gender constitutes judith butler s recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. Salih mainly presents and explains but it can only be said that this is an excellent introduction to butler s work up until around 2000. Judith butler causing gender trouble for gender critical. Butler s examination of popular sovereignty and public assembly is incisive and exigent. Shes written extensively on gender and her concept of gender performativity is a central theme of both modern feminism and gender theory.
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Their seminal books gender trouble and bodies that matter have reshaped our understanding of gender and sexuality by. Judith butlers new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. This book brings together a group of judith butlers philosophical essays written over two decades that elaborate her reflections on the roles of the passions in subject formation through an engagement with hegel, kierkegaard, descartes, spinoza, malebranche, merleauponty, freud, irigaray, and fanon. Judith butler, author of influential books such as gender trouble, has built her international reputation as a theorist of power, gender, sexuality and identity. The book has been awarded with booker prize, edgar awards and many others. This book brings together a group of judith butler s philosophical essays written over two decades that elaborate her reflections on the roles of the passions in subject formation through an engagement with hegel, kierkegaard, descartes, spinoza, malebranche, merleauponty, freud, irigaray, and fanon. Her many acclaimed critical works include subjects of desire, gender trouble, the psychic life of power, and bodies that matter.
The book s novelty lies in its relatively substantive version of radical democracy. Their seminal books gender trouble and bodies that matter have reshaped our understanding of gender and sexuality by introducing the concept of performativity. Queer theory was developed by judith butler in her postmodern feminist text, gender trouble. Feb 07, 2008 judith butler s work on gender, sexuality, identity, and the body has proved massively influential across a range of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Judith butler is a preeminent gender theorist and has played an extraordinarily influential role in shaping modern feminism. Unmooring feminism at its basis, the book questions the assumption that there is such a thing as the unity of the experience of women. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice that emanates from a calm region of the soul, or as. Its a book that covers a great many themes and thinkers, but it is clear that butler wants to question several things. For a long time, academic feminism in america has been closely allied to the practical struggle to. Judith butler s most influential book gender trouble. Understanding judith butler, however, can be perceived as a complex and difficult undertaking. Harvard university press, nov 17, 2015 philosophy 256 pages. Notes toward a performative theory of assembly judith.
But, in fact, nonviolence is an ethical position found in the midst of the political field. Along with eve kosofsky sedgwicks the epistemology of the closet and david halperins a hundred years of homosexuality, both of which were also published in 1990, butler s book helped to set the terms of the critical conversation that we now call queer theory. Judith butler on rethinking vulnerability, violence. It has a kind of mixed approach and method to butler s thinking. The main thesis of the book is that acting in concert can contest hierarchical.
In one sense that description is apt, since the eminent philosopher and gender theorist is here engaging with the public assembly politics of the past decade. Publishers weekly judith butler has written a vital, timely, and moving book that shines new light on the collective dimension of dissent. Notes toward a performative theory of assembly mary. Feminism and the subversion of identity 1st edition. Judith butler wonderfully analyzes the power and promise of assembly, particularly the assembly of precarious populations, and in doing so offers a lucid and exciting analysis of contemporary forms of activism. Notes toward a performative theory of assembly, by judith. One of the most talkedabout 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. Judith butler books list of books by author judith butler.
Notes toward a performative theory of assembly mary flexner lectures of bryn mawr collegehardcover november 17, 2015. Celebrity radical theorist judith butler has been called the most creative and courageous social theorist writing today by cornel west. Notes toward a performative theory of assembly 9780674967755. Notes towards a performative theory of assembly, by judith butler. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the matter of bodies, sex, and gender. Verso books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the. We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more. Help us create the kind of literary community youve always dreamed of. Senses of the subject by judith butler 2015, trade. She discussed the role that gender and sexual orientation play in the way in which society uses this concepts in order to place individuals in a specific category on the basis on how they. Judith butler wonderfully analyzes the power and promise of assembly, particularly the a ssembly of precarious populations, and in doing so offers a lucid and exciting analysis of contemporary forms of activism. Apr 05, 2002 judith butler is maxine elliot professor of rhetoric and comparative literature at the university of california at berkeley.
Feminism and the subversion of identity is a book by the philosopher judith butler, in which the author argues that gender is a kind of improvised performance. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, she extends her theory of performativity to show why precarity destruction of the conditions of livability is a galvanizing force and theme in todays highly visible protests. Judith butler is maxine elliot professor in the departments of rhetoric and comparative literature at the university of california, berkeley. It is in many way a chronological structure where lloyd starts with subjects of desire and the continues to precarious life, giving an account of oneself and undoing gender. Published in 2004 the book become immediate popular and critical acclaim in feminism, non fiction books. Judith butlers most influential book gender trouble.
Examining in turn debates about hate speech, pornography and gayness within the us military, butler argues that words can wound and linguistic violence is its own kind of violence. Feminism and the subversion of identity, and bodies that matter. Butler s ideas about gender came to be seen as foundational to. Years of remodelling the welfare state, the rise of technology, and the growing power of neoliberal government apparatuses have established a society of the precarious. This is a thinker at the height of her intellectual powers.
I mention this to underscore that the apparent francocentrism of. During an interview with the new statesman, judith butler, one of the leading american philosophers and gender theorists, took down transphobic rhetoric with so much skill and intelligence that i. Judith butler s new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Feminism and the subversion of identity 1990 and bodies that matter. Butler has actively supported lesbian and gay rights movements and has spoken out on many contemporary political issues. Notes toward a performative theory of assembly mary flexner lectures of bryn mawr college hardcover november 17, 2015. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice that emanates from a calm region of the soul, or as an individualist ethical relation to existing forms of power.
Pdf undoing gender book by judith butler 2004 read. Books by author judith butler judith butler why donald trump will never admit defeat. Judith butler, notes toward a performative theory of assembly. Judith butler is an american poststructuralist and feminist philosopher who has contributed to the fields of feminism, queer theory, political philosophy and ethics. Jan 12, 2015 by george yancy and judith butler january 12, 2015 9. We read about lives lost and are often given the numbers, but these stories are repeated every day, and the repetition appears endless, irremediable. She is currently a professor in the rhetoric and comparative literature departments at the university of california, berkeley. See all our reading for international womens day 2020 here. A times higher education book of the week judith butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions. One of the most talkedabout scholarly works of the past fifty years, judith butlers gender trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Strouse has undertaken to rewrite butler s classic tome into an octosyllabic poem. Judith butler s most recent book, the force of nonviolence, argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice that emanates from a calm region of the soul, or as an individualist ethical relation to existing forms of power. Judith butler is an american philosopher, gender theorist, and comparative literature professor.
Judith butler has 175 books on goodreads with 126152 ratings. Nov 09, 2020 butler is best known for her books gender trouble. She is the author of frames of war, precarious life, the psychic life of power, excitable speech, bodies that matter, gender trouble, and with slavoj zizek and ernesto laclau, contingency. She is the author of frames of war, precarious life, the psychic life of power, excitable speech, bodies that matter, gender trouble, and. Merupakan setiap tamu dan penunggu pasien yang datang atau.
Judith butler, notes toward a performative theory of assembly, harvard university press, 2015, 248pp. Judith butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions. Dec 10, 2015 the publishers notes for judith butler s latest work call it her most political book to date. The book is structured chronologically where each chapter deals with butler s major books. Judith butler, notes toward a performative theory of. A shared sense of precarity is at the heart of recent disparate mass protests, says mary evans. Notes toward a performative theory of assembly judith butler is a name that has been prevalent in academia for years, bringing us. On the discursive limits of sex 1993, in which she challenges conventional notions of gender and develops her theory of gender performativity.
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