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An Analysis of Judith Butler's Gender Trouble (Hardcover)
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An Analysis of Judith Butler's Gender Trouble (Hardcover)
Series: The Macat Library
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Judith Butler's Gender Trouble is a perfect example of creative
thinking. The book redefines feminism's struggle against patriarchy
as part of a much broader issue: the damaging effects of all our
assumptions about gender and identity. Looking at the factionalism
of contemporary (1980s) feminism, Butler saw a movement split by
identity politics. Riven by arguments over what it meant to be a
women, over sexuality, and over class and race, feminism was
falling prey to internal problems of identity, and was failing to
move towards broader solidarity with other liberation movements
such as LGBT. Butler turned these issues on their head by
questioning the basis that supposedly fundamental and fixed
identities such as 'masculine/feminine' or 'straight/gay' actually
have. Tracing these binary definitions back to the binary nature of
human anatomy ('male/female'), she argues that there is no
necessary link between our anatomies and our identities. Subjecting
a wide range of evidence from philosophy, cultural theory,
anthropology, psychology and anthropology to a renewed search for
meaning, Butler shows both that sex (biology) and gender (identity)
are separate, and that even biological sex is not simplistically
either/or male/female. Separating our biology from identity then
allows her to argue that, while categories such as
'masculine/feminine/straight/gay' are real, they are not necessary;
rather, they are the product of society's assumptions, and the
constant reproduction of those assumptions by everyone around us.
That opens up some small hope for change: a hope that - 25 years
after Gender Trouble's publication - is having a huge impact on
societies and politics across the world.
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