Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Download
Faster access than browser!
 

Gender Trouble

Index Gender Trouble

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990; second edition 1999) is a book by the philosopher Judith Butler, in which the author argues that gender is a kind of improvised performance. [1]

50 relations: Biological process, Cathexis, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Dialectic, Discourse, Drag (clothing), Ethnic group, Feminism, Feminist philosophy, Feminist theory, Gender, Gender identity, Hardcover, Herculine Barbin, HIV/AIDS, Human sexuality, Identity politics, Incest taboo, Jacques Lacan, Joan Riviere, Journal of Women, Politics & Policy, Judith Butler, Lesbian, Lingua Franca (magazine), Logos, Luce Irigaray, Mary Douglas, Monique Wittig, Mother, Ontology, Oppression, Paperback, Patriarchy, Phallocentrism, Post-structuralism, Psychosis, Purity and Danger, Queer theory, Routledge, Semiotics, Sex, Sigmund Freud, Simone de Beauvoir, Social class, Social constructionism, Structuralism, The History of Sexuality, Third-wave feminism, Undoing Gender, Woman.

Biological process

Biological processes are the processes vital for a living organism to live.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Biological process · See more »

Cathexis

In psychoanalysis, cathexis is defined as the process of investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Cathexis · See more »

Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss (28 November 1908, Brussels – 30 October 2009, Paris) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Claude Lévi-Strauss · See more »

Dialectic

Dialectic or dialectics (διαλεκτική, dialektikḗ; related to dialogue), also known as the dialectical method, is at base a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned arguments.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Dialectic · See more »

Discourse

Discourse (from Latin discursus, "running to and from") denotes written and spoken communications.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Discourse · See more »

Drag (clothing)

The slang term "drag" refers to the wearing of clothing of the opposite sex, and may be used as a noun as in the expression in drag, or as an adjective as in drag show.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Drag (clothing) · See more »

Ethnic group

An ethnic group, or an ethnicity, is a category of people who identify with each other based on similarities such as common ancestry, language, history, society, culture or nation.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Ethnic group · See more »

Feminism

Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Feminism · See more »

Feminist philosophy

Feminist philosophy is an approach to philosophy from a feminist perspective and also the employment of philosophical methods to feminist topics and questions.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Feminist philosophy · See more »

Feminist theory

Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical, fictional, or philosophical discourse.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Feminist theory · See more »

Gender

Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Gender · See more »

Gender identity

Gender identity is one's personal experience of one's own gender.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Gender identity · See more »

Hardcover

A hardcover or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as case-bound) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of Binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather).

New!!: Gender Trouble and Hardcover · See more »

Herculine Barbin

Herculine Barbin (1838–1868) was a French intersex person who was determined as female at birth and raised in a convent, but was later reclassified as male by a court of law, after an affair and physical examination.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Herculine Barbin · See more »

HIV/AIDS

Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

New!!: Gender Trouble and HIV/AIDS · See more »

Human sexuality

Human sexuality is the way people experience and express themselves sexually.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Human sexuality · See more »

Identity politics

Identity politics refers to political positions based on the interests and perspectives of social groups with which people identify.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Identity politics · See more »

Incest taboo

An incest taboo is any cultural rule or norm that prohibits sexual relations between closely related persons.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Incest taboo · See more »

Jacques Lacan

Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who has been called "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Freud".

New!!: Gender Trouble and Jacques Lacan · See more »

Joan Riviere

Joan Hodgson Riviere (28 June 1883 – 20 May 1962) was a British psychoanalyst, who was both an early translator of Freud into English and an influential writer on her own account.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Joan Riviere · See more »

Journal of Women, Politics & Policy

The Journal of Women, Politics & Policy is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Routledge which covers women's roles in the political process.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Journal of Women, Politics & Policy · See more »

Judith Butler

Judith Butler FBA (born February 24, 1956) is an American philosopher and gender theorist whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics and the fields of third-wave feminist, queer and literary theory.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Judith Butler · See more »

Lesbian

A lesbian is a homosexual woman.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Lesbian · See more »

Lingua Franca (magazine)

Lingua Franca was an American magazine about intellectual and literary life in academia.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Lingua Franca (magazine) · See more »

Logos

Logos (lógos; from λέγω) is a term in Western philosophy, psychology, rhetoric, and religion derived from a Greek word variously meaning "ground", "plea", "opinion", "expectation", "word", "speech", "account", "reason", "proportion", and "discourse",Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott,: logos, 1889.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Logos · See more »

Luce Irigaray

Luce Irigaray (born 3 May 1930) is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Luce Irigaray · See more »

Mary Douglas

Dame Mary Douglas, (25 March 1921 – 16 May 2007) was a British anthropologist, known for her writings on human culture and symbolism, whose area of speciality was social anthropology.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Mary Douglas · See more »

Monique Wittig

Monique Wittig (July 13, 1935 – January 3, 2003) was a French author and feminist theorist who wrote about overcoming socially enforced gender roles and who coined the phrase "heterosexual contract".

New!!: Gender Trouble and Monique Wittig · See more »

Mother

A mother is the female parent of a child.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Mother · See more »

Ontology

Ontology (introduced in 1606) is the philosophical study of the nature of being, becoming, existence, or reality, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Ontology · See more »

Oppression

Oppression can refer to an authoritarian regime controlling its citizens via state control of politics, the monetary system, media, and the military; denying people any meaningful human or civil rights; and terrorizing the populace through harsh, unjust punishment, and a hidden network of obsequious informants reporting to a vicious secret police force.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Oppression · See more »

Paperback

A paperback is a type of book characterized by a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Paperback · See more »

Patriarchy

Patriarchy is a social system in which males hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Patriarchy · See more »

Phallocentrism

Phallocentrism is the ideology that the phallus, or male sexual organ, is the central element in the organization of the social world.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Phallocentrism · See more »

Post-structuralism

Post-structuralism is associated with the works of a series of mid-20th-century French, continental philosophers and critical theorists who came to be known internationally in the 1960s and 1970s.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Post-structuralism · See more »

Psychosis

Psychosis is an abnormal condition of the mind that results in difficulties telling what is real and what is not.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Psychosis · See more »

Purity and Danger

Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo is a 1966 book by the anthropologist and cultural theorist Mary Douglas.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Purity and Danger · See more »

Queer theory

Queer theory is a field of critical theory that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of queer studies and women's studies.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Queer theory · See more »

Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Routledge · See more »

Semiotics

Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the study of meaning-making, the study of sign process (semiosis) and meaningful communication.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Semiotics · See more »

Sex

Organisms of many species are specialized into male and female varieties, each known as a sex. Sexual reproduction involves the combining and mixing of genetic traits: specialized cells known as gametes combine to form offspring that inherit traits from each parent.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Sex · See more »

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Sigmund Freud · See more »

Simone de Beauvoir

Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (or;; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist and social theorist.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Simone de Beauvoir · See more »

Social class

A social class is a set of subjectively defined concepts in the social sciences and political theory centered on models of social stratification in which people are grouped into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the upper, middle and lower classes.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Social class · See more »

Social constructionism

Social constructionism or the social construction of reality (also social concept) is a theory of knowledge in sociology and communication theory that examines the development of jointly constructed understandings of the world that form the basis for shared assumptions about reality.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Social constructionism · See more »

Structuralism

In sociology, anthropology, and linguistics, structuralism is the methodology that implies elements of human culture must be understood by way of their relationship to a larger, overarching system or structure.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Structuralism · See more »

The History of Sexuality

The History of Sexuality (L'Histoire de la sexualité) is a four-volume study of sexuality in the western world by the French historian and philosopher Michel Foucault, in which the author examines the emergence of "sexuality" as a discursive object and separate sphere of life and argues that the notion that every individual has a sexuality is a relatively recent development in Western societies.

New!!: Gender Trouble and The History of Sexuality · See more »

Third-wave feminism

Third-wave feminism is an iteration of the feminist movement that began in the early 1990s United States and continued until the fourth wave began around 2012.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Third-wave feminism · See more »

Undoing Gender

Undoing Gender is a 2004 book by the philosopher Judith Butler.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Undoing Gender · See more »

Woman

A woman is an adult female human being.

New!!: Gender Trouble and Woman · See more »

Redirects here:

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_Trouble

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »