Butler Matters: Judith Butler's Impact on Feminist and Queer Studies

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Since the 1990 publication of Gender Trouble, Judith Butler has had a profound influence on how we understand gender and sexuality, corporeal politics, and political action both within and outside the academy. This collection, which considers not only Gender Trouble but also Bodies That Matter, Excitable Speech, and The Psychic Life of Power, attests to the enormous impact Butler's work has had across disciplines. In analyzing Butler's theories, the contributors demonstrate their relevance to a wide range of topics and fields, including activism, archaeology, film, literature, pedagogy, and theory. Included is a two-part interview with Judith Butler herself, in which she responds to questions about queer theory, the relationship between her work and that of other gender theorists, and the political impact of her ideas. In addition to the editors, contributors include Edwina Barvosa-Carter, Robert Alan Brookey, Kirsten Campbell, Angela Failler, Belinda Johnston, Rosemary A. Joyce, Vicki Kirby, Diane Helene Miller, Mena Mitrano, Elizabeth M. Perry, Frederick S. Roden, and Natalie Wilson. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Figures List of Contributors Foreword Acknowledgements PART I: INTRODUCTION 1 Introduction to the Collection 2 ' There is a Person Here': An Interview with Judith Butler 3 Becoming Butlerian: On the Discursive Limits (and Potentials) of Gender Trouble PART II: LANGUAGE, MELANCHOLIA, AND SUBJECTIVITY 4 When All That is Solid Melts into Language 5 Judith Butler and the Images of Theory 6 The Plague of the Subject: Subjects, Politics, and the Power of Psychic Life 7 Excitable Speech: Judith Butler, Mae West, and Sexual Innuendo PART III: BODY MATTERS: ARCHAEOLOGY, LITERATURE, AND PEDAGOGY 8 Past Performance: The Archaeology of Gender as Influenced by the Work of Judith Butler 9 Renaissance Body Matters: Judith Butler and the Sex That is One 10 Gender Trouble in the Literature Classroom: Unintelligible Genders in The Metamorphosis and The Well of Loneliness 11 Butler's Corporeal Politics: Matters of Politicized Abjection PART IV: AGENCY, POSTSTRUCTURALISM, AND PRAGMATISM 12 Strange Tempest: Agency, Poststructuralism, and the Shape of Feminist Politics to Come 13 Changing Signs: The Political Pragmatism of Poststructuralism Index