Gill Jagger

Judith Butler (eBook, ePUB)

Sexual Politics, Social Change and the Power of the Performative

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Judith Butler's work on gender, sexuality, identity, and the body has proved massively influential across a range of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Yet it is also notoriously difficult to access.

This key book provides a comprehensive introduction to Butler's work, plus a critical examination of it and its precursors, both feminist (including Simone de Beauvoir, Monique Wittig, Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray), and non-feminist (including Erving Goffman, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida). The volume covers such topics as:

• gender as performance and performativity
• sociological notions of performance
• the materiality of the body and the role of biology
• power, identity and social regulation
• subjectivity, agency and feminist political practice.

A comprehensive introduction to Butler's work, this book also covers melancholia and gender identity, hate speech, pornography and 'race', social change and transformation, and Butler's shifting relation to psychoanalysis.

Clearly laid out to cover key themes for a student audience, this text will be an essential read for undergraduates in the fields of gender, psychoanalysis and sociology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134601332
• Artikelnr.: 38460339

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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

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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