Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Mary McIntosh, Judith Butler

Feminist Review· 1991-01-01· article· 29,379 citationsclosed

Abstract

Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics

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Mary McIntosh, Judith Butler (1991). Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Feminist Review. https://doi.org/10.1057/fr.1991.33

@article{mary1991gender,
  title  = {Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity},
  author = {McIntosh, Mary and Butler, Judith},
  year   = {1991},
  journal = {Feminist Review},
  doi    = {10.1057/fr.1991.33}
}

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