Aan de hand van de gedachten van Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault en Althusser onderzoekt de auteur de invloed van macht en onderwerping op de psyche van de mens.
A selection of Butler's writings on gender identity, performativity, subjectivity, discursive power, kinship, and critique. Contains: Section 1: Sex, Gender Performativity, and the Matter of Bodies .1. Variations on Sex and Gender: Beauvoir, Wittig, Foucault (1987) .2. Excerpts from Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France (1987) .3. Excerpts from Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) .4. Imitation and Gender Insubordination (1990) .5. Excerpt from Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of 'Sex' (1993) .Section 2: Fantasy, Censorship, and Discursive Power .6. The Force of Fantasy: Mapplethorpe, Feminism, and Discursive (1990) .7. Endangered/Endangering: Schematic Racism and White Paranoia (1993) .8. Excerpt from Excitable Speech: A Poltics of the Performative (1997) .Section 3: Subjection, Kinship, and Critique .9. Excerpt from The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection (1997) .10. Excerpt from Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left (2000) .11. Excerpt from Antigone’s Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death (2000) .12. What Is Critique? An Essay on Foucault’s Virtue (2001) .Section 4: Making Difficulty Clear .13. Changing the Subject: Judith Butler’s Politics of Radical Resignification.