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  • Gender Troubleby Judith Butler

    Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 31.95

    Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. more...

  • Undoing Genderby Judith Butler

    Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 43.95

    Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory, Butler considers the norms that govern--and fail... more...

  • Giving an Account of Oneselfby Judith Butler

    Fordham University Press 2005; US$ 19.99

    What does it mean to lead a moral life?In her first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice?one responsive to the need for critical autonomy and grounded in a new sense of the human subject.Butler takes as her starting point one?s ability to answer the questions ?What have I done?? and... more...

  • Bodies That Matterby Judith Butler

    Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 26.95

    In Bodies That Matter , renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power... more...

  • Gender Troubleby Judith Butler

    Taylor and Francis 2011; US$ 23.95

    One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler?s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category 'woman' and continues in this vein... more...

  • Parting Waysby Judith Butler

    Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 26.99

    Judith Butler follows Edward Said?s late suggestion that only through a consideration of Palestinian dispossession in relation to Jewish diasporic traditions will a new ethos for a one-state solution emerge. Butler engages some forms of Jewish intellectual criticism of political Zionism and its practices of illegitimate state violence, nationalism,... more...

  • Antigone's Claimby Judith Butler

    Columbia University Press 2010; US$ 25.99

    The celebrated author of Gender Trouble here redefines Antigone's legacy, recovering her revolutionary significance and liberating it for a progressive feminism and sexual politics. Antigone has long been a feminist icon of defiance. But what has remained unclear is whether she escapes from the forms of power that she opposes, since the form of... more...

  • The Question of Genderby Judith Butler; Elizabeth Weed

    Indiana University Press 2011; US$ 22.95

    A generation after the publication of Joan W. Scott's influential essay, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis," this volume explores the current uses of the term -- and the ongoing influence of Scott's agenda-setting work in history and other disciplines. How has the study of gender, independently... more...

  • Salt Marshesby Carol Butler; Judith Weis

    Rutgers University Press 2009; US$ 23.95

    Tall green grass. Subtle melodies of songbirds. Sharp whines of muskrats. Rustles of water running through the grasses. And at low tide, a pungent reminder of the treasures hidden beneath the surface.All are vital signs of the great salt marshes' natural resources. Now championed as critical habitats for plants, animals, and people because of... more...

  • Subjects of Desireby Judith Butler; Philippe Sabot

    Columbia University Press 2012; US$ 28.99

    This classic work by one of the most important philosophers and critics of our time charts the genesis and trajectory of the desiring subject from Hegel?s formulation in Phenomenology of Spirit to its appropriation by Kojčve, Hyppolite, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze, and Foucault. Judith Butler plots the French reception of Hegel and the successive challenges... more...