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Bodies that matter : on the discursive limits of "sex" / Judith Butler.

By: Butler, Judith, 1956-Series: Routledge classicsPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY : Routledge, c2011Description: xxx, 219 p.; 22 cm001: 15214ISBN: 041561015X; 9780415610155; 0203828275; 9780203828274Subject(s): Feminist theory | Sex role -- Philosophy | Sex differences (Psychology) | Sexual orientation -- Philosophy | Identity (Psychology) | FemininityDDC classification: 306.701 LOC classification: HQ1190 | .B88 2011

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Major book by one of the world's leading theorists, published to great acclaim One of the first theory books on the body, which has since become a huge topic Complements Gender Trouble which is already in the Classics series

"First published 1993 by Routledge."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Acknowledgments (p. vi)
  • Preface (p. viii)
  • Introduction (p. xi)
  • Part I (p. 1)
  • 1 Bodies That Matter (p. 3)
  • 2 The lesbian Phallus and the Morphological imaginary (p. 28)
  • 3 Phantasmatic Identification and the Assumption of Sex (p. 58)
  • 4 Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion (p. 81)
  • Part II (p. 99)
  • 5 "Dangerous Crossing": Willa Cather's Masculine Names (p. 101)
  • 6 Passing, Queering: Nella Larsen's Psychoanalytic Challenge (p. 122)
  • 7 Arguing with the Real (p. 139)
  • 8 Critically Queer (p. 169)
  • Notes (p. 186)
  • Index (p. 217)

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