Beginning with her earliest formulations of performativity and up through her more recent
theory of precarity, Judith Butler offers a sustained reflection on the constitution, production …

Judith Butler's work on gender, sexuality, identity, and the body has proved massively
influential across a range of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Yet …

For a long time now I have been interested in what I see to be a particular tension in the
work of Judith Butler. This is the tension between her explicit commitment to producing …

Despite the continual displacement of nearly every established conception of the human, the
figure of the human remains a powerful idea for political and ethical theorising. In the era of …

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 …

With the publication of her highly acclaimed and much-cited book Gender Trouble, Judith
Butler became one of the most influential feminist theorists of her generation. Her theory of …

Judith Butler's celebrated concept of “performativity” is designed to expose hegemonic
conceptions of identity as fictions. It thereby seeks to contribute to a leftwing cultural politics …

Over the past twenty-five years the work of Judith Butler has had an extraordinary impact on
numerous disciplines and interdisciplinary projects across the humanities and social …

This article proposes that Butler's Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
provides a valuable contribution to the sociology of cosmopolitanism on the basis of a …

This essay examines the work of Judith Butler in relation to corporeality through an analysis
of Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex” and Butler's notion of politicized …