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Judith Butler | |
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| Born | Judith Pamela Butler February 24, 1956 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
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| Partner | Wendy Brown |
| Children | 1 |
| Era | 20th-/21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley The European Graduate School |
| Doctoral advisor | Maurice Natanson |
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Judith Pamela Butler[1] (born February 24, 1956) is an American feminist 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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- ^ 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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