Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Judith Pamela Butler [1] (born February 24, 1956) is an American feminist philosopher and gender studies scholar whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminism, [2] queer theory, [3] and literary theory.
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity [1] [2] is a book by the post-structuralist gender theorist and philosopher Judith Butler in which the author argues that gender is performative, meaning that it is maintained, created or perpetuated by iterative repetitions when speaking and interacting with each other.
Butler, credited as "Judy Butler", criticizes Samois in their essay "Lesbian S&M: The Politics of Dis-Illusion". [2] Several other essays in the anthology also criticize it. The anthology also includes an interview between Audre Lorde and Susan Leigh Star. The essays express opposition to sadomasochism from a number of different viewpoints.
Parting Ways draws from the writings of Edward Said, Emmanuel Levinas, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, Primo Levi, and Mahmoud Darwish.Butler argues that cohabitation with other groups is a core part of Jewish history and identity, and that Israel and Palestine are inextricably linked.
Another crucial point for the start of the third wave is the publication in 1990 of Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler, which soon became one of the most influential works of contemporary feminist theory. In it, Butler argued against homogenizing conceptions of "women", which had a normative and ...
Judith Butler – explored the constricting nature of social norms in constructing 'normal' men and women; [12] and argued for a feminism without a feminist subject, fearing the constraining influence implicit in overt identity politics. [13]
As Rubin would say in a later interview with Judith Butler: "It [Lévi-Strauss] completely blew my mind." [10] In addition, Rubin was then reading the newly emergent strands of post-structuralist theory from French intellectuals. [10] The paper arose from several drafts of a term paper for a course she was taking with Sahlins.
Prominent queer theorist Judith Butler penned a harsh critique of MacKinnon's work, writing, "MacKinnon insists that feminism does not require prioritizing of oppressions, and that 'male domination' or 'patriarchy' must be construed as the systemic and founding source of oppression for women. And though this may appear true for some ...