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Gender Trouble: Feminism and Subversion of Identity
title
Gender Trouble: Feminism and Subversion of Identity
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publisher
Routledge
publication year
2006
description
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. 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.
education level
temporal
keywords
reviewer
Charlie Orlando Leppert;Katie Arthur
was created by
Butler, Judith