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Organized in active collaboration between judith butler and sara salih, the judith butler. Judith butler is maxine elliot professor in the department of comparative literature and the program of critical theory at the university of california, berkeley. Preface 1999 ten years ago i completed the manuscript of gender trouble and sent it to routledge for publication. In bodies that matter, renowned theorist and philosopher judith butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality. The judith butler reader and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. If, following foucault, we understand power as forming the subject as well, it provides the very condition of its existence and the. Judith butler, author of influential books such as gender trouble, has built her international reputation as a theorist of power, gender, sexuality and identity organized in active collaboration between judith butler and sara salih collects together writings that span butler. Judith butler, born in cleveland, ohio on february 2, 1956, is a leading philosopher whose theories in the fields of political philosophy, feminism and ethics are well known. Judith butler, her contemporaries, and the lgbt movement. 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. She has held many prestigious teaching positions, including a professorship in the rhetoric and comparative literature department at the university of california, berkeley. This chapter discusses judith butlers gender trouble gt and its legacy in political theory. The judith butler reader is a collection of writings that span her impressive career and trace her intellectual history.
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