Judith Butler

Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American philosopher and gender theorist whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics and the fields of feminist, queer and literary theory. Since 1993, she has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is now Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and co-director of the Program of Critical Theory.

Academically, Butler is most well-known for her books Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity and Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex", which challenge notions of gender and develop her theory of gender performativity.

Literature

• Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France, 1987
• Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, 1990
• Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex", New York & London: Roudedge, 1993
• Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative, New York & London: Routledge, 1997
• Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death, 2000
• with Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left, 2000

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_Butler#External_links
• http://www.egs.edu/faculty/judith-butler/biography/
• http://www.bookrags.com/biography/judith-p-butler-dlb/3.html