By Gill Jagger
Judith Butler's paintings on gender, sexuality, id, and the physique has proved hugely influential throughout quite a number educational disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. but it's also notoriously tricky to entry.
This key e-book presents a entire advent to Butler's paintings, plus a severe exam of it and its precursors, either feminist (including Simone de Beauvoir, Monique Wittig, Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray), and non-feminist (including Erving Goffman, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida). the amount covers such themes as:
- gender as functionality and performativity
- sociological notions of performance
- the materiality of the physique and the position of biology
- power, id and social regulation
- subjectivity, corporation and feminist political practice.
A finished advent to Butler’s paintings, this publication additionally covers melancholia and gender identity, hate speech, pornography and 'race', social swap and transformation, and Butler’s moving relation to psychoanalysis.
Clearly laid out to hide key subject matters for a scholar viewers, this article is going to be an important learn for undergraduates within the fields of gender, psychoanalysis and sociology.
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