Judith Butler - Sexual Politics, Social Change and the Power of the Performative

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext Provides a comprehensive introduction to notoriously difficult work of Judith Butler, plus a critical examination of it and its precursors, both feminist (including Simone de Beauvoir), and non-feminist (including Erving Goffman). Zusammenfassung Provides a comprehensive introduction to notoriously difficult work of Judith Butler, plus a critical examination of it and its precursors, both feminist (including Simone de Beauvoir), and non-feminist (including Erving Goffman). Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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• Authors: Gill Jagger, Gill (University of Hull Jagger, Jagger Gill
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2008
• EAN: 9780415219747
• ISBN: 978-0-415-21974-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; History, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Literature & literary studies, Humanities, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Biography, Literature and Literary studies