Judith Butler

b. 1956

1 standalone book

Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American philosopher and gender theorist known for her contributions to political philosophy, ethics, and feminist, queer, and literary theory. She has been a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley, since 1993, where she holds the Maxine Elliot Professorship in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory. She also serves as the Hannah Arendt Chair at the European Graduate School. Butler is best known for her books Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) and Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex (1993), in which she challenges traditional understandings of gender and introduces the concept of gender performativity.

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1956