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

by Gill Jagger

Book Overview

Judith Butler's work on gender, sexuality, identity, and the body has proved massively influential across a range of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Yet it is also notoriously difficult to access.

This key book provides a comprehensive introduction to Butler's work, plus a critical examination of it and its precursors, both feminist (including Simone de Beauvoir, Monique Wittig, Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray),...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B007CHQXH8
• ISBN13: 9780415219754
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 9.2"