American philosopher and gender studies philosopher (born 1956)
Judith Butler
Butler in March 2012
Born
Judith Pamela Butler
(1956-02-24) February 24, 1956 (age 68)
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Education
Bennington College
Yale University (BA, MA, PhD)
Partner
Wendy Brown
Children
1
Era
20th-/21st-century philosophy
Region
Western philosophy
School
Continental philosophy
third-wave feminism
critical theory
queer theory
performative turn
Institutions
University of California, Berkeley The European Graduate School
Doctoral advisor
Maurice Natanson
Main interests
Feminist theory
political philosophy
ethics
psychoanalysis
phenomenology
discourse
embodiment
sexuality
gender studies
Jewish philosophy
Notable ideas
Gender performativity
Part of a series on
Feminist philosophy
Major works
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman(1792)
The Subjection of Women(1869)
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State(1884)
The Second Sex(1949)
The Feminine Mystique(1963)
Sexual Politics(1969)
The Dialectic of Sex(1970)
Speculum of the Other Woman (1974)
This Sex Which is Not One (1977)
Gyn/Ecology(1978)
Throwing Like a Girl(1980)
In a Different Voice(1982)
The Politics of Reality(1983)
Women, Race, and Class(1983)
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center(1984)
The Creation of Patriarchy(1986)
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State(1989)
Gender Trouble(1990)
Black Feminist Thought(1990)
Feminism and the Mastery of Nature(1993)
Whipping Girl(2007)
The Promise of Happiness(2010)
Major thinkers
Bartky
Baier
de Beauvoir
Bebel
Boggs
Butler
Cixous
Cleyre
De la Cruz
Collins
Daly
Davis
Démar
Federici
Firestone
Fourier
Friedan
Frye
Gamond
Goldman
Grosz
Haslanger
hooks
Irigaray
Jaggar
Kristeva
Lerner
Lorde
Lugones
Luxemburg
MacKinnon
Mama
Michel
Mill
Taylor Mill
Millett
Nussbaum
Pankhurst
Pateman
Plumwood
Rubin
Saadawi
Showalter
Spivak
Voilquin
Wittig
Wollstonecraft
Young
Zetkin
Ideas
Feminism
analytical
epistemology
ethics
existentialism
metaphysics
science
Gender equality
Gender performativity
Social construction of gender
Care ethics
Intersectionality
Standpoint theory
Journals
Feminist Philosophy Quarterly
Hypatia
philoSOPHIA
Radical Philosophy
Signs
Category
Feminist philosophy
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Judith Pamela Butler[1] (born February 24, 1956) is an American philosopher and gender studies scholar whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminism,[2] queer theory,[3] and literary theory.[4]
In 1993 Butler began teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, where they[a] have served, beginning in 1998, as the Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory. They are also the Hannah Arendt Chair at the European Graduate School (EGS).[7]
Butler is best known for their books Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) and Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex (1993), in which they challenge conventional, heteronormative notions of gender and develop their theory of gender performativity. This theory has had a major influence on feminist and queer scholarship.[8] Their work is often studied and debated in film studies courses emphasizing gender studies and performativity.
Butler has spoken on many contemporary political questions, including Israeli politics and in support of LGBT rights.[9][10][11]
^Duignan, Brian (2018). "Judith Butler". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved November 2, 2018.
^Rottenberg, Catherine (August 27, 2003). "Judith Butler". The Literary Encyclopedia. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
^Halberstam, Jack (May 16, 2014). "An audio overview of queer theory in English and Turkish by Jack Halberstam". Retrieved May 29, 2014.
^Kearns, Gerry (2013). "The Butler affair and the geopolitics of identity" (PDF). Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 31 (2): 191–207. Bibcode:2013EnPlD..31..191K. doi:10.1068/d1713. S2CID 144967142.
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^"Judith Butler, European Graduate School". Retrieved July 14, 2015.
^Thulin, Lesley (April 19, 2012). "Feminist theorist Judith Butler rethinks kinship". Columbia Spectator. Archived from the original on September 25, 2015. Retrieved October 9, 2013.
^"Judith Butler". McGill Reporter. McGill. Archived from the original on September 25, 2015. Retrieved October 9, 2013.
^Gans, Chaim (December 13, 2013). "Review of Judith Butler's "Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism"". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Archived from the original on September 20, 2015. Retrieved September 23, 2013.
^Butler, Judith (October 13, 2023). "The Compass of Mourning". London Review of Books. Vol. 45, no. 20. ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved October 18, 2023.
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