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 …

Subjectivity—the process of identity formation and of how one emerges as a subject—is a
central concept in philosophy, social sciences and contemporary political discourse. Judith …

An important theme within postmodem feminism is that essentialist notions of women and
naturalized conceptions of the human subject are unnecessary and troubling ingredients for …

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 …

This chapter explores the concepts of performativity and performance in feminist theory. It
begins by examining the idea of gender performativity in the work of Judith Butler, tracing its …

The aim of this article is to examine both the work of Judith Butler on gender performativity
and examples of how Butler's writings have been appropriated by certain other writers. I …

Judith Butler's contribution to feminist political thought is usually approached in terms of her
concept of performativity, according to which gender exists only insofar as it is ritualistically …

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 …

The work of queer and feminist scholar Judith Butler has revolutionized our understanding of
gender within contemporary social theory. In Gender Trouble (1999), Butler develops the …

The philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler famously coined the term gender
performativity in her 1990 book Gender Trouble. There, she posited the theory of gender, or …