This paper responds to the sense of “crisis” or “trouble” that dominates contemporary
feminist debate about the categories of sex and gender. It argues that this perception of …

(Bill Connolly) One impressive thing about Gender Trouble was its creative and detailed
elaboration of the Foucauldian idea that the demand to secure a “true identity” or “a core” …

In this essay I explore the role of dialectics for how social theory can take account of the
problem of structure and agency, or, determination and freedom, in a critical and …

THE MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW agenda for feminist thinkers and activists. Too simply put,
Gender Trouble introduced a series of conceptual tools for the critical analysis of the politics …

Abstract This essay explores Judith Butler's influence on feminist and gender studies at two
levels. First, the essay examines Butler's specific theoretical contributions with special …

Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness-L. Adam Mekler the African context, could facilitate
dialogue within and across supposedly. tool by means of which gender as a unit of analysis …

In this chapter I offer an interpretation of Judith Butler's metaphysics of sex and gender and
situate it in the ontological landscape alongside what has long been the received view of …

Ostensibly, Seyla Benhabib's and Judith Butler's papers dispute the relationship of feminism
to postmodernism. 1 However, in the course of their exchange, a debate about" modernity" …

I'm struck in many ways by what now appears to me to be the parochialism of these debates,
for the four of us certainly are not representative of" feminism" or" feminist theory" as it is …

Recently, Judith Butler refused to accept an award for civil courage at the Berlin Christopher
Street Day, because she felt the event had become too commercial, and the event's …