Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity by Judith Butler

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Judith Butler

272 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction feminism gender philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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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 ind...

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