Gender Trouble
Subtitle: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Series: Routledge Classics
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 12, 2006
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780415389556
Copyright date: 1990
First sentence: For the most part, feminist theory has assumed that there is some existing identity, understood through the category of women, who not only initiates feminist interests and goals within discourse, but constitutes the subject for whom political representation is pursued.
Description: Since its initial publication in 1990, this book has become a key work of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where the author began to advance the ideas that would go on to take life as "performativity theory," as well as some of the first articulations of the possibility for subversive gender practices. Overall, this book offers a powerful critique of heteronormativity and of the function of gender in the modern world.
Table of contents: label: PREFACE (1999)
pagenum: vii; label: PREFACE (1990)
pagenum: xxix; label: 1
title: Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire
pagenum: 1; label: I
title: "Women" as the subject of feminism
pagenum: 2; label: II
title: The compulsory order of sex/gender/desire
pagenum: 8; label: III
title: Gender: the circular ruins of contemporay debate
pagenum: 10; label: IV
title: Theorizing the binary, the unitary, and beyond
pagenum: 18; label: V
title: Identity, sex, and the metaphysics of substance
pagenum: 22; label: VI
title: Language, power, and the strategies of displacement
pagenum: 34; label: 2
title: Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosecual Matrix
pagenum: 47; label: I
title: Structuralism's critical exchange
pagenum: 52; label: II
title: Lacan, Riviere, and the strategies of masquerade
pagenum: 59; label: III
title: Freud and the melancholia of gender
pagenum: 78; label: IV
title: Gender complexity and the limits of identification
pagenum: 89; label: V
title: Reformulating prohibition as power
pagenum: 97; label: 3
title: Subersive Bodily Acts
pagenum: 107; label: I
title: The body politics of Julia Kristeva
pagenum: 107; label: II
title: Foucault, Herculine, and the politics of sexual discontinuity
pagenum: 127; label: III
title: Monique Wittig: bodily disintegration and fictive sex
pagenum: 151; label: IV
title: Bodily inscriptions, performative subversions
pagenum: 175; title: Conclusion: From Parody to Politics
pagenum: 194; label: Notes
pagenum: 205; label: Index
pagenum: 229