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January 1, 1991Feminist Review28,049 citations

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

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MMMary McIntoshJBJudith Butler

Key Points

  • The essay aims to examine how feminist theory subverts traditional notions of gender and identity.
  • Analyzes key feminist theories and figures including Lacan, Freud, and Kristeva.
  • Explores concepts of gender, identity, and power in a historical context.
  • Critically evaluates the intersection of language and bodily politics.
  • Identifies the complexities of gender and its societal implications.
  • Demonstrates how feminist discourse disrupts conventional understandings of identity.
  • Highlights the significance of bodily acts as forms of political expression.

Abstract

Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics

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synapsesocial.com/papers/69dc8ddd89c4deb67d3591bfhttps://doi.org/10.2307/1395391
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