Performativity Books
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as performativity)
avg rating 4.04 — 19,902 ratings — published 1989
Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as performativity)
avg rating 3.97 — 842 ratings — published 1997
Performativity, Politics, and the Production of Social Space (Routledge Studies in Human Geography)
by (shelved 2 times as performativity)
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 2013
Agency and Embodiment: Performing Gestures/Producing Culture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 4.30 — 10 ratings — published 2009
Audition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 3.29 — 39,971 ratings — published 2025
Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (Mary Flexner Lectures of Bryn Mawr College)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 4.10 — 478 ratings — published 2015
The Concept of the State in International Relations: Philosophy, Sovereignty and Cosmopolitanism (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 2015
Conspicuous Consumption in Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published
African Dress: Fashion, Agency, Performance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2013
Chinese Fashion: From Mao to Now (Dress, Body, Culture)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 3.00 — 6 ratings — published 2009
The Emancipatory Project of Posthumanism (Interventions)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Encountering Affect (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 4.22 — 9 ratings — published 2014
Performativity & Belonging (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 1999
Performance as Political Act: The Embodied Self (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published 1990
Performing Identities and Utopias of Belonging (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2013
The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice (Science and Cultural Theory)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 4.24 — 343 ratings — published 2002
Ritual and the Moral Life: Reclaiming the Tradition (Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture, 21)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 2012
Actors and Audience in the Roman Courtroom (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 3.50 — 2 ratings — published 2007
Confucius: The Secular As Sacred (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 3.80 — 179 ratings — published 1972
Learning Chinese, Turning Chinese (Asia's Transformations)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 3.88 — 8 ratings — published 2011
Values of Korean People Mirrored in Fiction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published
Performing Shakespeare in Japan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published 2001
Performance Studies (Readers in Cultural Criticism, 9)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published 2003
Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,752 ratings — published 2006
Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 3.71 — 621 ratings — published 2015
Queer Externalities: Hazardous Encounters in American Culture (SUNY series in Queer Politics and Cultures)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 3.64 — 11 ratings — published 2009
Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English & American Literary Studies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 3.54 — 13 ratings — published 1992
A Queer Geography: Journeys Toward a Sexual Self (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 3.46 — 28 ratings — published 1996
Literary Theories: A Reader and Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 3.45 — 11 ratings — published 1999
Cruising the Performative: Interventions Into the Representation of Ethnicity, Nationality, and Sexuality (Unnatural Acts)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 2.60 — 5 ratings — published 1995
Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 3.99 — 350 ratings — published 1974
Queer Theory and the Jewish Question (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 4.19 — 48 ratings — published 2003
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,737 ratings — published 1959
Performativity (The New Critical Idiom)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 3.32 — 25 ratings — published 2006
Studies in Ethnomethodology (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 4.08 — 130 ratings — published 1967
The Open Past: Subjectivity and Remembering in the Talmud (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2012
'You Should See Yourself': Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 3.25 — 8 ratings — published 2006
How to Do Things with Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,654 ratings — published 1955
Undoing Gender (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as performativity)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,332 ratings — published 2004
“The misapprehension about gender performativity is this: that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts on clothes in the morning, that there is a 'one' who is prior to this gender, a one who goes to the wardrobe of gender and decides with deliberation which gender it will be today.”
― Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"
― Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"
“Not many boys like boys; but they like being a boy, showing it, being it together" (22)
(rbt: where does this come from? this being a boy, which is also a doing -- this being wrapped in desire? who teaches it? how? when?)”
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(rbt: where does this come from? this being a boy, which is also a doing -- this being wrapped in desire? who teaches it? how? when?)”
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