Judith Butler: Gender Trouble Feminism and the Subversion of Id

Resume:

Since its original publication in 1990, this work has been translated in 9 languages and has become one the key works of contemporary feminist theory. It offers a powerful critique of heteronormativity and of the function of gender in the modern world. Material is in sections on subjects of sex/gender/desire; prohibition, psychoanalysis, and the production of the heterosexual matrix; and subversive bodily acts.


Contents:

Preface p. vii
1 Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire p. 1
i "Women" as the Subject of Feminism p. 1
ii The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire p. 6
iii Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate p. 7
iv Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary, and Beyond p. 13
v Identity, Sex, and the Metaphysics of Substance p. 16
vi Language, Power, and the Strategies of Displacement p. 25

2 Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the
Heterosexual Matrix p. 35
i Structuralism's Critical Exchange p. 38
ii Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade p. 43
iii Freud and the Melancholia of Gender p. 57
iv Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification p. 66
v Reformulating Prohibition as Power p. 72

3 Subversive Bodily Acts p. 79
i The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva p. 79
ii Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity p. 93
iii Monique Wittig: Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex p. 111
iv Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions p. 128

Conclusion: From Parody to Politics p. 142
Notes p. 150
Index p. 170