One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine'. Best known however, but also most often misinterpreted, is Butler's concept of gender a...

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Shouldn't we know what we're arguing about?

From one of the most influential thinkers of our time, an enlightening, essential account of how gender is understood today

Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to ri...

Er is geen filosoof die meer invloed heeft gehad op het hedendaagse denken over genderongelijkheid dan Judith Butler. Dit is Butlers eerste publieksboek en het belooft in te slaan als een bom.

In dit boek maakt Butler de gendertheorie voor een breed publiek toegankelijk én trekt fel van leer tegen de anti-genderbeweging die droomt van een autoritaire, fascistische samenleving. Diens sociale en politieke analyse is zowel actueel als tijdloos.

‘De radicale theoreticus die een gender-queer na...