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1. Bodies That Matter

   On the Discursive Limits of Sex

   By Judith Butler

   Series: Routledge Classics

   In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of...

   Published April 3rd 2011 by Routledge
2. Gender Trouble

   Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

   By Judith Butler

   Series: Routledge Classics

   One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning...

   Published May 11th 2006 by Routledge
3. Undoing Gender

   By Judith Butler

   Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer...

   Published August 16th 2004 by Routledge
4. What's Left of Theory?

   New Work on the Politics of Literary Theory

   Edited by Judith Butler, John Guillory, Kendall Thomas

   Series: Essays from the English Institute

   Published July 24th 2000 by Routledge
5. Gender Trouble

   Tenth Anniversary Edition

   By Judith Butler

   Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture....

   Published September 1st 1999 by Routledge
6. Excitable Speech

   A Politics of the Performative

   By Judith Butler

   With the same intellectual courage with which she addressed issues of gender, Judith Butler turns her attention to speech and conduct in contemporary political life, looking at several efforts to target speech as conduct that has become subject to political debate and regulation. Reviewing hate...

   Published March 6th 1997 by Routledge
7. Feminist Contentions

   A Philosophical Exchange

   By Seyla Benhabib, Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell, Nancy Fraser

   Series: Thinking Gender

   Published December 13th 1994 by Routledge
8. Bodies That Matter

   On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"

   By Judith Butler

   In Bodies That Matter, Judith Butler further develops her distinctive theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most "material" dimensions of sex and sexuality. Deepening the inquiries she began in Gender Trouble, Butler offers an original reformulation of the materiality of bodies...

   Published September 19th 1993 by Routledge
9. Erotic Welfare

   Sexual Theory and Politics in the Age of Epidemic

   Edited by Judith Butler, Maureen MacGrogan

   Series: Thinking Gender

   Published November 9th 1992 by Routledge
10. Feminists Theorize the Political

    Edited by Judith Butler, Joan W. Scott

    Published May 20th 1992 by Routledge