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Judith Butler Books

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Judith Butler es una filósofa estadounidense nacida en 1956, reconocida por sus contribuciones a la teoría feminista, la filosofía política y la ética. Profesora en la Universidad de California, Berkeley, su trabajo ha influido profundamente en los estudios de género, la teoría queer y la crítica cultural contemporánea.

Known for: Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Undoing Gender

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The Sex/Gender Distinction and Its Limits

Feminist theory has long relied on the distinction between sex and gender: sex as biological, gender as cultural. Yet this binary, I argue, cannot sustain itself under scrutiny. The very idea that sex is ‘biological’ already presupposes a cultural act of interpretation—what counts as ‘biology,’ what...

From Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

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Engaging Beauvoir and Wittig: Rethinking Gender as Performative

Simone de Beauvoir’s famous assertion that ‘one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman’ opens the way to think of gender as a process rather than a state. Yet her conceptualization still presumes a subject who does the 'becoming'—a stable 'one' who undergoes the transformation. In my analysis, I a...

From Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

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Undoing Gender

To undo gender is not to abolish it or deny its importance. It is to interrogate the social and institutional mechanisms through which gender norms are stabilized. Gender, as I frame it, is not a fixed attribute but an ongoing process constituted through acts of recognition. In every moment we are c...

From Undoing Gender

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Gender Performativity Revisited

Since *Gender Trouble*, the idea of performativity has often been misunderstood as suggesting that gender is a voluntary performance or a theatrical mask one can easily put on or take off. In *Undoing Gender*, I return to this concept to clarify its ethical and political implications. Performativity...

From Undoing Gender

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Judith Butler es una filósofa estadounidense nacida en 1956, reconocida por sus contribuciones a la teoría feminista, la filosofía política y la ética. Profesora en la Universidad de California, Berkeley, su trabajo ha influido profundamente en los estudios de género, la teoría queer y la crítica cu...

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Judith Butler es una filósofa estadounidense nacida en 1956, reconocida por sus contribuciones a la teoría feminista, la filosofía política y la ética. Profesora en la Universidad de California, Berkeley, su trabajo ha influido profundamente en los estudios de género, la teoría queer y la crítica cultural contemporánea.

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Judith Butler es una filósofa estadounidense nacida en 1956, reconocida por sus contribuciones a la teoría feminista, la filosofía política y la ética. Profesora en la Universidad de California, Berkeley, su trabajo ha influido profundamente en los estudios de género, la teoría queer y la crítica cultural contemporánea.

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