Gender trouble : feminism and the subversion of identity

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Gender trouble : feminism and the subversion of identity

Judith Butler

(Thinking gender)

Routledge, 1990

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN 9780415900423

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Butler examines the 'trouble' with unproblematized appeals to sex/gender identities. She challenges a variety of psychological assumptions about what it means to be a gender and gives re-readings of Lacan, Freud, and Kristeva. This book should be of interest to advanced students of women's studies, gender studies, cultural studies, philosophy.
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: pbk ISBN 9780415900430

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Ever since feminist theory introduced the distinction between sex and gender, the question of what it means to be a woman has preoccupied feminist thought. In Gender Trouble Judith Butler questions whether it is possible to "be" a woman at all or, for that matter, any gender.

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