Judith Butler
Author profile
born
in Cleveland, Ohio, The United States
February 24, 1956
gender
female
genre
influences
Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, J.L. Austin, Jean Lap...more
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
— published 1989 — 29 editions |
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Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"
— published 1993 — 10 editions |
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Undoing Gender
— published 2004 — 12 editions |
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Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
— published 2004 — 6 editions |
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The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection
— published 1997 — 5 editions |
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Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative
— published 1997 — 7 editions |
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Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left
by Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau, Slavoj Žižek — published 2000 — 5 editions |
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Giving an Account of Oneself
— published 2003 — 9 editions |
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Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death
— published 2000 — 6 editions |
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Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?
— published 2009 — 5 editions |
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“Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact. It may be that one wants to, or does, but it may also be that despite one's best efforts, one is undone, in the face of the other, by the touch, by the scent, by the feel, by the prospect of the touch, by the memory of the feel. And so when we speak about my sexuality or my gender, as we do (and as we must), we mean something complicated by it. Neither of these is precisely a possession, but both are to be understood as modes of being dispossessed, ways of being for another, or, indeed, by virtue of another.”
― Judith Butler, Undoing Gender
― Judith Butler, Undoing Gender
“...gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself...what they imitate is a phantasmic ideal of heterosexual identity...gay identities work neither to copy nor emulate heterosexuality, but rather, to expose heterosexuality as an incessant and panicked imitation of its own naturalized idealization. That heterosexuality is always in the act of elaborating itself is evidence that it is perpetually at risk, that it, that it 'knows' it's own possibility of becoming undone”
― Judith Butler
― Judith Butler
“If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that heterosexuality issues from a disappointed homosexuality?”
― Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
― Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
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