Judith Butler Gender Trouble

Butler s ideas about gender came to be seen as foundational to queer theory and the advancing of dissident sexual practices during the 1990s.

Judith butler gender trouble. Judith butler created date. Second edition 1999 is a book by the philosopher judith butler in which the author argues that gender is a kind of improvised performance. 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. Feminism and the subversion of identity 1990.

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. 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. The work is influential in feminism women s studies and lesbian and gay studies and has also enjoyed widespread popularity outside of traditional academic circles.