Gender trouble : feminism and the subversion of identity / Judith Butler
Imprint
New York : Routledge, c1999
Descript
xxxiii, 221 p. ; 23 cm
CONTENT
Subjects of sex/gender/desire: "Women" as the subject of feminism ; Compulsory order of sex/gender/desire ; Theorizing the binary, the unitary, and beyond -- Prohibition, psychoanalysis, and the production of the heterosexual matrix: Structuralism's critical exchange ; Lacan, riviere, and the strategies of masquerade ; Freud and the melancholia of gender ; Reformulating prohibition as power -- Subversive bodily acts: Body politics of Julia Kristeva ; foucault, herculine, and the politics of sexual discontinuity ; Bodily inscriptions, performative subversions