sexual politics, social change and the power of the performative
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Jagger, Gill
- Publish Year
- 2008
- Shelfmark
- VS 8 2008
- Thesaurus
- filosofie, lichamen, identiteit, macht, biologie, politieke participatie, etniciteit, psychoanalyse, transgenders
- Description
- This book provides an introduction to Butler's work, plus a critical examination of it and its precursors, both feminist (including Simone de Beauvoir, Monique Wittig, Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray), and non-feminist (including Erving Goffman, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida). The volume covers such topics as: gender as performance and performativity, sociological notions of performance, the materiality of the body and the role of biology, power, identity and social regulation, subjectivity, agency and feminist political practice. This book also covers melancholia and gender identity, performativity and 'race', social change and transformation, and Butler’s shifting relation to psychoanalysis.