Summary: Chapter 1 of Gender Trouble by Judith Butler.
Judith Butler Born in 1956, in Cleveland, Ohio to a Jewish family Is an American philosopher and gender theorist, whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of feminist and homosexual theory. She is a lesbian, and lives with her partner and son in.The Hegelian tradition links desire with recognition, claiming that desire is always a desire for recognition and that it is only through the experience of recognition that any of us becomes constituted as socially viable beings. That view has its allure and its truth, but it also misses a couple of important points. The terms by which we are.Judith Pamela Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American philosopher and gender theorist whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminist, queer, and literary theory. In 1993, she began teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has served, beginning in 1998, as the Maxine.
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory Judith Butler Philosophers rarely think about acting in the theatrical sense, but they do have a discourse of 'acts' that maintains associative semantic meanings with theories of performance and acting. For example, John Searle's 'speech acts,' those verbal as- surances and promises which seem not only to.Monstrous Desire: Frankenstein and the Queer Gothic Focussing upon Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and John Polidori’s The Vampyre, this study explores the extent to which Gothic fiction and queer theory can be posited as mutually illuminating fields of academic inquiry. There is certainly much scope for.
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