The Question of Gender by Judith Butler

The Question of Gender by Judith Butler

A generation after the first publication of Joan W. Scott's influential essay, Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis, this volume explores the current uses and valences of the term--and the ongoing influence of Scott's work in history and other disciplines. Leading scholars from history, philosophy, literature, art history, and other fields examine how gender has translated into their own disciplinary perspectives. How has the study of gender, independently or in conjunction with other axes of difference such as race, class, and sexuality, inflected existing fields of study and created new ones? To what extent has this concept modified or been modified by related paradigms such as womens' and queer studies? With what discursive politics does the term engage, and with what effects? In what settings, and through what kinds of operations and transformations, can gender remain a useful category in the twenty-first century?

The scholarship and the writing here is engaging and imaginative (see in particular Gayle Salamon's paper on transgenderism and Merleau-Ponty), and there is a keen sense of what's at stake in a field that seems to have, in Joan WScott's words, only paradoxes to offer.51.2 2014

* COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STUDIES *

[T]he book sheds light on the continued power of feminist scholarship following poststructuralism. It provides many models of engaged, provocative, critical, and careful writing that constitute feminist scholarship at its best.

The Question of Gender collects cutting-edge research by some of the most prominent contemporary feminist scholars.

* Women's Studies Quarterly *

[The editors] provide fresh analyses of the state of gender studies and the dynamic theories of 'sexual difference' as proposed, tested, and critiqued by Joan Wallach Scott.

* American Historical Review *

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and Co-director of the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity; Undoing Gender; and Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?
Elizabeth Weed is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University and Director of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. She is editor of Coming to Terms: Feminism/Theory/Politics and editor (with Naomi Schor) of Feminism Meets Queer Theory (IUP, 1997) and The Essential Difference (IUP, 1994).

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ISBN 13	9780253223241
ISBN 10	0253223245
Title	The Question of Gender
Author	Judith Butler
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Indiana University Press
Year published	2011-07-20
Number of pages	336
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