Butler, Judith

Gender trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity/ Judith Butler - New York: Routledge/ 2007.. - vi, 236 p. HB

1. Subjects Of Sex/Gender/Desire: --
I. "Women" as the Subject of Feminism; --
II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire; --
III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate; --
IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond; --
V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance; --
VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement; --
2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis,and The Production Of The Heterosexual Matrix: --
I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange; --
II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade; --
III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender; --
IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification; --
V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power; --
3. Subversive Bodily Acts: --
I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva; --
II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity; --
III. Monique Wittig --
Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex; --
IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions; --
Conclusion --
From Parody To Politics.

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Feminist theory. Sex role. Sex differences (Psychology

305.3 / BUT/B