Judith Butler: From Norms to Politics

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Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1: Introduction; Feminism, identity and difference; From homosexual to gay and lesbian to queer; The influence of poststructuralism; Hegel and desiring subjects; Postscript; 2: Rethinking Sex and Gender; The trouble with women; Feminism and the sex/gender debate; Denaturalizing sex and gender; Cultural intelligibility -- contesting heteronormativity; From phenomenology to performativity; Performing gender; Women in/and feminism; Conclusion; 3: Towards a Subversive Gender Politics; From parody to politics; Subversive gender politics.;With the publication of her highly acclaimed and much-cited book Gender Trouble, Judith Butler became one of the most influential feminist theorists of her generation. Her theory of gender performativity and her writings on corporeality, on the injurious capacity of language, on the vulnerability of human life to violence and on the impact of mourning on politics have, taken together, comprised a substantial and highly original body of work that has a wide and truly cross-disciplinary appeal. In this lively book, Moya Lloyd provides both a clear exposition and an original critique of Butler's.