Society and Culture Bundle RC: Bodies That Matter: On the discursive limits of "sex"
"As a philosopher of gender [Judith Butler] is unparalleled."– Village Voice"Butler gives us a new way to think about the materiality of the body in the discursive performity operative in the materialization of sex. Following a common move in postmodern feminism, Butler sets out to demolish the sex/gender distinction that has formed the mainstay of the de Beauvorian and radical feminism's notion that gender, as a cultural construction, could be critiqued and politicized against the givenness of the body's biological sex. . . .What is new inBodies That Matteris Butler's attempt to write more directly about race." – Signs"Extending the brilliant style of interrogation that made her 1990 bookGender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identitya landmark of gender theory/queer theory, Butler here continues to refine our understandings of the complexly performative character of sexuality and gender and to trouble our assumptions about the inherent subversiveness of dissident sexualities. . . . indispensable reading across the wide range of concerns that queer theory is currently addressing." – Artforum"What the implications/limitations of 'sexing' are and how the process works comprise the content of this strikingly perceptive book. . . . Butler has written a most significant and provocative work that addresses issues of immediate social concern." – The Boston Book Review"A brilliant and original analysis."– Drucilla Cornell, Rutgers University, USA"...a classic."– Elizabeth Grosz