Judith Butler: s**ual Politics, Social Change and the Power of t

Taylor & Francis

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 it is also notoriously difficult to access. \nThis key book provides a comprehensive introduction to Butler's work, plus a critical examination of it and its precursors, both feminist (including Simone de Beauvoir, Monique Wittig, Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray), and non-feminist (including Erving Goffman, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida). The volume covers such topics as:\ngender as performance and performativity \nsociological notions of performance\nthe materiality of the body and the role of biology\npower, identity and social regulation\nsubjectivity, agency and feminist political\n\nJudith Butler\nSexual Politics, Social Change and the Power of the Performative\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked serv;