Judith Butler: Sexual Politics, Social Change and the Power of the Performative

ISBN-13: 9780415219754 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 188 str.

UK) Jagger Gill (University of Hull

Opis

Judith Butler's work on gender, sexuality, identity and the body has proved massively influential across a range of academic disciplines. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Butler's work.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Gender as Performance and Performative  2. Body Matters: From Construction to Materialization  3. Performativity, Subjection and the Possibility of Agency  4. The Politics of the Performative: Hate Speech, Pornography and ‘Race’  5. Beyond Identity Politics: Gender, Transgender and Sexual Difference.  Conclusion

O autorze

Gill Jagger is a lecturer in the department of Social Sciences at the University of Hull. Her research interests include poststructuralist theory and gender, sexual difference and the body and she has published in these areas. She co-edited Changing Family Values (Routledge, 1999).