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Gender Trouble

Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

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"Gender Trouble" is published by Routledge in May 12, 2006 - New York, USA, it has 236 pages and the language of the book is English.


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  • Title: Gender Trouble
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  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 236
  • Publisher: Routledge
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  • Publish Location: New York, USA

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  • Pagination: xxxvi, 236p

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"Gender Trouble" Table Of Contents:

  • 1- Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire
  • 2- "Women" as the subject of feminism
  • 3- The compulsory order of sex/gender/desire
  • 4- Gender: the circular ruins of contemporay debate
  • 5- Theorizing the binary, the unitary, and beyond
  • 6- Identity, sex, and the metaphysics of substance
  • 7- Language, power, and the strategies of displacement
  • 8- Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosecual Matrix
  • 9- Structuralism's critical exchange
  • 10- Lacan, Riviere, and the strategies of masquerade
  • 11- Freud and the melancholia of gender
  • 12- Gender complexity and the limits of identification
  • 13- Reformulating prohibition as power
  • 14- Subersive Bodily Acts
  • 15- The body politics of Julia Kristeva
  • 16- Foucault, Herculine, and the politics of sexual discontinuity
  • 17- Monique Wittig: bodily disintegration and fictive sex
  • 18- Bodily inscriptions, performative subversions
  • 19- Conclusion: From Parody to Politics

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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.

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