Judith Butler is an American feminist, queer philosopher and gender studies scholar, born in 1956, whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, psychoanalysis, and the fields of feminist and queer theory, academic freedom and literary theory. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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BirthplaceCleveland, Ohio, United States 1 Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionDeveloped the theory of gender performativity in Gender Trouble (1990) and Bodies That Matter (1993), foundational to feminist and queer theory. 1 Notable WorkGender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) 1 Connections
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Judith Butler's performativity theory (Gender Trouble, 1990) is a foundational contribution to feminist theory.
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Butler theory of gender performativity draws explicitly on Foucault genealogical account of how power produces the categories it appears only to regulate.
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Judith Butler is an American feminist, queer philosopher, and gender studies scholar whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, psychoanalysis, and the fields of feminist and queer theory, academic freedom, and literary theory.
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