Gender Trouble
About this book
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 indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine'. Best known however, but also most often misinterpreted, is Butler's concept of gender as a reiterated social performance rather than the expression of a prior reality. Thrilling and provocative, few other academic works have roused passions to the same extent.
Reader Profile
4.0/5 · 46 readers · 264 pages · ≈ 4 h 53 m · Moderate
How long does it take to read Gender Trouble?
About ≈ 4 h 53 m — 264 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Gender Trouble?
264 pages in its most-read edition.
Is Gender Trouble in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote Gender Trouble?
Judith Butler.
“For the most part, feminist theory has assumed that there is some existing identity, understood through the category of women, who not only initiates feminist interests and goals within discourse, but constitutes the subject for whom political representation is pursued.”