Software Images icon An illustration of two photographs. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. Gender trouble : feminism and the subversion of identity Item Preview. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! 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. 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 -- Gender complexity and the limits of identification -- Reformulating prohibition as power -- 3.
Subversive bodily acts -- The body politics of Julia Kristeva -- Foucault, Herculine, and the politics of sexual discontinuity -- Monique Wittig: Bodily disintegration and fictive sex -- Bodily inscriptions, performative subversions -- Conclusion: From parody to politics. There are no reviews yet. A feminist that is, a participant in the cultural, political, and theoretical currents surrounding the advocacy of the rights of women , she has published more than a dozen books and has been active in debates ranging from lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual rights to Middle Eastern politics.
She works on identity issues and prejudice against minorities, having personal experience of both. She has spoken about the difficulty of coming out as a teenager and about the scars she has received on account of her sexuality.
Since the early s she has entered another controversial debate, becoming an outspoken critic of Israeli state policies on terrorism and Palestine, the geographical region that includes Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. What Does Gender Trouble Say? Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity argues that people must rethink the most basic categories of human identity to make society better.
Where do these categories come from? How do they contribute to prejudice in society? How can questioning these labels help change society? Men who behave in feminine ways or women who behave in masculine ways are considered abnormal or strange. They suffer prejudice, ranging from simple stares in the street to actual violence against them. This negatively affects their lives. Butler asks why this should be so. Where do these categories of normal come from, and what makes them so strong?
Is there, for instance, any necessary or natural link between being a man and being masculine? If not, why does there seem to be one? What if there is no necessary link between biological sex being a man or woman and gender behaving in masculine or feminine ways? Why should it be considered normal for men to be attracted to women rather than to men? Instead, social conventions about dress and behavior give the appearance of a natural basis. Butler sees this understanding of naturalness as coming from society as a whole.
The performative is not just a performance; it is a performance that makes itself real. Knowing that this is the case, though, can help people change the script. Gender Trouble has sold over , copies and been published in 13 languages.
It is widely considered the most influential text in the history of gender studies, and has had an impact on a broad range of disciplines. By forcing readers to think again about the fundamental identity categories of the modern world, Gender Trouble sparked a series of debates that continue to the present day. Why Does Gender Trouble Matter? It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of Gender Trouble for anyone interested in philosophy or culture theory.
From the moment it appeared in , it was hailed as a pivotal text in the history of feminism. Since then it has become one of the most referenced books in modern philosophy, and one of the most significant texts in the history of culture theory.
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