Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "sex" (Paperback) by Professor Judith Butler

from logocentric

I have just read this book. I think it shows any reader of Butler just how demanding her texts can be, but if you maintain a certain 'discipline' the rewards are certainly well worth it. This book represents for Butler her re-working of some of her arguments in her earlier book Gender Trouble. In...

from amydross

Basically a riposte to the critics of Butler's earlier Gender Trouble (of which I was one), this text is a much clearer and more rigorous articulation of the logic behind performativity. The theory remains problematic in places (which, to her credit, Butler acknowledges for the most part), but th...

from DarthDeverell

In Bodies That Matter, Judith Butler builds upon her previous work, Gender Trouble, and argues, "The category of 'sex' is, from the start, normative; it is what Foucault called a 'regulatory ideals'" (pg. xi). Practice, specifically regulated practice, materializes these ideals. In a lengthy pass...

from logocentric

I have just read this book. I think it shows any reader of Butler just how demanding her texts can be, but if you maintain a certain 'discipline' the rewards are certainly well worth it. This book represents for Butler her re-working of some of her arguments in her earlier book Gender Trouble. In...

from amydross

Basically a riposte to the critics of Butler's earlier Gender Trouble (of which I was one), this text is a much clearer and more rigorous articulation of the logic behind performativity. The theory remains problematic in places (which, to her credit, Butler acknowledges for the most part), but th...