In this interview we engage Judith Butler; one of the most challenging, influential and
refreshing thinkers of our time. Given the diverse readership of Agenda we engage Butler on …

Femme/Butch: New Considerations of the Way We Want to Go Page 1 Page 2 Femme/Butch:
New Considerations of the Way We Want to Go Michelle Gibson Deborah T. Meem Editors …

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 …

Over the last few years, influential feminists have argued that feminism should shift its central
focus from issues of gender identity to a more general set of “post-identity” concerns. The …

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 …

We realize that the only people who care enough about us to work consistently for our
liberation is us... This focusing on our own oppression is embodied in the concept of identity …

This quotation from 2004 easily reads like an admission of guilt on Butler's part, an apology
for her failure to 'write about the body'in a way that proves satisfactory to her critics (who …

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" …

In 1988, Signspublished an article by Linda Alcoff,'Cultural Feminism Versus Post-
structuralism: the Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory'. In her article, Alcoff addresses the crisis …

PREFACE"\l Then I first began to sketch the outline of this book in the late 19805 I VV had no
idea that my unfashionable interest in the l 9th century nationalist political thought and …