Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.3
EAN: 9780415903660
Edition: 1
ISBN: 0415903661
Label: Routledge
Manufacturer: Routledge
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: September 20, 1993
Publisher: Routledge
Studio: Routledge

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Rating: - Thought-provoking
This book clarifies much of Foucault was saying in History of Sexuality. Butler is careful, however, to not borrow the models Foucault uses, thereby, avoids some of the mistakes and gaps that occur in his thinking, namely the silence on women. Butler, more than Foucault, is not willing to settle the debate on sexuality merely as the obtaining and disseminating of pleasures and how those bodies perform them. Rather, she takes bodies as always already gender indeterminate and destablilizes ... Read More

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Rating: - Performativity is not about choice!
When Judith Butler describes gender as performative, contrary to much of what is mistakenly thought out there, it is not about choice! It is not about choosing to put on a gender--as if it was a performance in the traditional or obvious way. The performativity of gender is meant to suggest--invoke--that gender is constituted by performative acts which repeated come to form, take shape, a "coherent" gender identity. Thus, Butler uses the performative to suggest that this coherency is false and ... Read More

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