Bodies that matter : on the discursive limits of "sex" /

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In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Butler, Judith
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, c2011.
Series:Routledge classics
Subjects:
Femininity.
Feminist theory.
Identity (Psychology)
Sex differences (Psychology)
Sex role > Philosophy.
Sexual orientation > Philosophy.
Table of Contents:
  • Bodies that matter
  • The lesbian phallus and the morphological imaginary
  • Phantasmatic identifi cation and the assumption of sex
  • Gender is burning: questions of appropriation and subversion
  • "Dangerous crossing": Willa Cather's masculine names
  • Passing, queering: Nella Larsen's psychoanalytic challenge
  • Arguing with the real
  • Critically queer.

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