Preface 1999 ten years ago i completed the manuscript of gender trouble and sent it to routledge for publication. Judith butler is an american gender theorist whose writing has influenced our understanding of feminism and gender identity. Judith butler gender trouble foucault and feminism. Genderforschung, welcher geschlecht gender als ein. One of the most talkedabout scholarly works of the past fifty years, judith butler s gender trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. A quarter of a century ago, philosopher judith butler 1990 called upon society to create gender trouble by disrupting the binary view of sex. Key theories of judith butler literary theory and criticism.
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