Judith Butler

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Judith Butler is an American philosopher and gender theorist best known for developing the concept of gender performativity and for her influential work in feminist and queer theory.

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instanceOf feminist theorist
gender theorist
human
philosopher
queer theorist
university teacher
academicDegree PhD in philosophy
awardReceived Bruno Kreisky Award for Political Books
Theodor W. Adorno Award
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1956-02-24
educatedAt Bennington College
Yale University
employer European Graduate School
University of California, Berkeley
ethnicGroup Jewish Americans
familyName Butler
fieldOfWork critical theory
ethics
feminist theory
gender studies
philosophy
political philosophy
queer theory
givenName Judith
hasPublicationYearForWork Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex (1993)
Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative (1997)
Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? (2009)
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990)
Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (2015)
Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence (2004)
Undoing Gender (2004)
linked to: Undoing Gender
influenced contemporary feminist theory
critical theory
gender studies
queer theory
influencedBy Hegel
linked to: G. W. F. Hegel

J. L. Austin
Jacques Derrida
Michel Foucault
Sigmund Freud
Simone de Beauvoir
languageOfWorkOrName English
mainInterest ethics of nonviolence
gender
power
sexuality
subjectivity
movement post-structuralism
postmodern feminism
queer theory
name Judith Butler
nationality American
notableConcept gender performativity
performativity
notableWork Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex
Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative
Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Giving an Account of Oneself
Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly
Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection
Undoing Gender
placeOfBirth Cleveland, Ohio, United States
positionHeld Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley
Professor in the Program of Critical Theory at UC Berkeley
religion Judaism
sexOrGender female

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