This guide offers students of literature and culture a refreshingly clear introduction to Butler's crucial ideas, including the formation of identity, subjecthood and gender performativity.

The Judith Butler Reader is a collection of writings that span her impressive career and trace her intellectual history.

• 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's impressive career as a critical philosopher, including selections from both well-known and lesser-known works
• Includes an introduction and...

The Judith Butler Reader is a collection of writings that span her impressive career and trace her intellectual history.

• 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's impressive career as a critical philosopher, including selections from both well-known and lesser-known works
• Includes an introduction and...

Discourses of Slavery and Abolition brings together for the first time the most important strands of current thinking on the relationship between slavery and categories of writing, oratory and visual culture in the 'long' Eighteenth-century. The book begins by examining writing about slavery and race by both philosophers and by authors such as Aphra Behn. It considers self-representation in the works of Ignatius Sancho, Olaudah Equiano, James Williams and Mary Prince. The final section reads literary and cultural texts associated with the abolition movements of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth...