Saturday Sep 21, 2019

Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble" (Part 1/2)

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Note: *I discuss performativity at beginning and end of next episode!* In this episode, I take on Butler's "Gender Trouble," a seminal text in the fields of feminism and post-structuralism. Butler argues that some strands of feminist thought mistakenly attribute a transcendental significance to the idea of 'woman' that fails to account for the modes of discourse/power that construct that identity.

Comments (2)

YousefF

5 years ago

I know this is the book you’re going through, but do you know if the content is the same as her 1990 paper? Or does it include or exclude more material?