Gender has assumed terrifying, phantasmagorical proportions for a diverse range of groups today. It has become an “overdetermined” concept, “absorbing wildly different ideas of what threatens the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to Britannica, Butler’s Gender Trouble was “one of the founding texts of queer theory,” and all of their work continues ...

It is a minor tragedy in the life of a book reviewer when she realizes that agreeing with a book’s conclusions (and even revering its author) is not always sufficient to make the book much good.

The official Lego Web site asserts that the plastic snap-together blocks can “inspire students to use their creativity.” What it doesn’t say is that Lego blocks may also help students “understand ...

Judith Butler is so iconic that just the invocation of their name — or their first book, 1990's theory classic Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity — can work as a punchline in the ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Judith Butler is a Professor for Comparative Literature and Critical Theory in the University of California, Berkeley with three videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first ...

One of the boldest and most radical thinkers of our time, Butler (Bodies That Matter) examines the contemporary state of popular sovereignty, resistance, and other “concerted actions,” as Hannah ...