Gender Trouble

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas that would go on to take life as "performativity theory," as well as some of the f...

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas that would go on to take life as "performativity theory," as well as some of the first articulations of the possibility for subversive gender practices, and she writes in her preface to the 10th anniversary edition released in 1999 that one point of Gender Trouble was "not to prescribe a new gendered way of life [...] but to open up the field of possibility for gender [...]" Widely taught, and widely debated, Gender Trouble continues to offer a powerful critique of heteronormativity and of the function of gender in the modern world.

1956年出生于美国，耶鲁大学哲学博士，加州大学伯克利分校修辞与比较文学系教授。巴特勒是当代最著名的后现代主义思想家之一，在女性主义批评、性别研究、当代政治哲学和伦理学等学术领域成就卓著，主要著作有《性别麻烦》、《身体之重》、《消解性别》、《欲望的主体》等。

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文学博士，中山大学中文系副教授、硕士生导师。曾先后赴美国加州大学伯克利分校、伊利诺大学香槟分校做博士后研究和访问学者。曾任教于韩国梨花女子大学、国立安东大学。主要学术领域为妇女、性别与文化研究。著有《多重主体策略的自我命名：女性主义文学理论研究》，译有《噪音:音乐的政治经济学》（合译）、《激情的疏离：女性主义电影理论导论》（合译）。