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Judith Butler was born on February 24, 1956, in Cleveland, Ohio, to a family of Hungarian-Jewish and Russian-Jewish descent. Most of their maternal grandmother's family perished in the Holocaust. Butler's parents were practicing Reform Jews. Their mother was raised Orthodox, eventually becoming Conservative and then Reform, while their father was r...
Performative Acts and Gender Constitution
In the essay "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory" Judith Butler proposes that gender is performative. Because gender identity is established through behavior, there is a possibility to construct different genders via different behaviors.
Gender Trouble
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity was first published in 1990, selling over 100,000 copies internationally, in multiple languages. Gender Trouble discusses the works of Sigmund Freud, Simone de Beauvoir, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Lacan, Luce Irigaray, Monique Wittig, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault. Butler offers a critique of the terms gender and sex as they have been used by feminists. Butler argues that feminism made a mistake in trying to make "women" a discrete,...
Imitation and Gender Insubordination
Judith Butler explores the production of identities such as homosexual and heterosexualand the limiting nature of identity categories. An identity category for Butler is a result of certain exclusions and concealments, and thus a site of regulation. Butler acknowledges, however, that categorized identities are important for political action at the present time. Butler believes that identity forms through repetition or imitation and is not original. Butler also states that imitation fosters th...
Butler's work has been influential in feminist and queer theory, cultural studies, and continental philosophy. Yet their contribution to a range of other disciplines—such as psychoanalysis, literary, film, and performance studies as well as visual arts—has also been significant. Their theory of gender performativity as well as their conception of "...
Much of Butler's early political activism centered around queer and feminist issues, and they served, for a period of time, as the chair of the board of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. Over the years, Butler has been particularly active in the gay and lesbian rights, feminist, and anti-war movements. They have also writte...
Butler is a lesbian, legally non-binary, and goes by she or they pronouns. They live in Berkeley with their partner Wendy Brownand son, Isaac.
Butler has had a visiting appointment at Birkbeck, University of London(2009–). 1. 1999: Guggenheim Fellowship 2. 2007: Elected to the American Philosophical Society 3. 2008: Mellon Award for their exemplary contributions to scholarship in the humanities 4. 2010: "25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World", Utne Reader 5. 2012: Theodor W. Adorno A...
All of Butler's books have been translated into numerous languages; Gender Trouble, alone, has been translated into twenty-seven languages. In addition, they have co-authored and edited over a dozen volumes—the most recent of which is Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (2013), coauthored with Athena Athanasiou. Over the years Butler h...
Biography – University of California, BerkeleyWorks by or about Judith Butler in libraries (WorldCatcatalog)Avital Ronell, Judith Butler, Hélène Cixous on YouTubeapproach the notion of affinity through a discussion of "Disruptive Kinship," co-sponsored by Villa Gillet and the School of Writing at The New...Interview of Judith Butler about their new book "Frames of War" on New Statesman
