Gender Trouble(1st Edition) Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge Classics) (Volume 36) by JudithButler Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2006 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-38955-6, ISBN: 0-415-38955-0
"In a new introduction to the 10th-anniversary edition of Gender Trouble--among the two or three most influential books (and by far the most popular) in the field of gender studies--Judith Butler explains the complicated critical response to her groundbreaking arguments and the ways her ideas have evolved as a result. Nevertheless, she has resisted the urge to revise what has become a feminist classic (as well as an elegant defense of dr ..."
Precarious Life(Reissue) The Powers of Mourning and Violence (Radical Thinkers) by JudithButler Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2020 by Verso Books, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-861-3, ISBN: 1-78873-861-6
"In her most impassioned and personal book to date, Judith Butler responds in this profound appraisal of post-9/11 America to the current US policies to wage perpetual war, and calls for a deeper understanding of how mourning and violence ..."
"The use of "theory" in feminist analysis has been said to threaten feminism as a political force. This collection of work by leading feminist scholars engages with the question of the political status of poststructuralism theory within feminism. Against the view that the use of post-structuralism necessarily weakens feminism, 'Feminists Theorize the Political' affirms the contemporary debate over theory as politically rich and consequen ..."
What World Is This? A Pandemic Phenomenology by JudithButler Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2022 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-20829-1, ISBN: 0-231-20829-4
Who's Afraid of Gender? by JudithButler Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2024 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-60822-4, ISBN: 0-374-60822-9
"An urgent intervention, a bold call for a freer and more allied world, Who's Afraid of Gender? is a landmark work of social and political analysis that is both timely and timeless--a book only Butler could write."
The Force of Nonviolence(Reprint) An Ethico-Political Bind (Paperback) by JudithButler Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2021 by Verso Books ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-277-2, ISBN: 1-78873-277-4
"In Costa Rica , sociologist Montserrat Sagot has argued that the violence against
women not only brings into focus the systemic inequality between men and
women throughout society , but manifests forms of terror that are part of the
legacy of ..."
Parting Ways(1st Edition) Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism by JudithButler Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2013 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-14611-1, ISBN: 0-231-14611-6
"Judith Butler follows Edward Said's late suggestion that through a consideration of Palestinian dispossession in relation to Jewish diasporic traditions a new ethos can be forged for a one-state solution. Butler engages Jewish philosophical positions to articulate a critique of political Zionism and its practices of illegitimate state violence, nationalism, and state-sponsored racism. At the same time, she moves beyond communitarian fra ..."
"A generation after the publication of Joan W. Scott's influential essay, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis," this volume explores the current uses of the term--and the ongoing influence of Scott's agenda-setting work in history and other disciplines. How has the study of gender, independently or in conjunction with other axes of difference--such as race, class, and sexuality--inflected existing fields of study and create ..."
"Women and Social Transformation brings three women from different countries together into dialogue. Judith Butler is the most referenced author in current feminist literature, and we find the latest developments of her work in this book; Lidia Puigvert has recently reached international relevance with her contribution about the -other women-, who have not yet had a voice in feminism; and Elizabeth Beck-Gernsheim complements this debate ..."
The Force of Nonviolence The Ethical in the Political by JudithButler Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2020 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-78873-276-5, ISBN: 1-78873-276-6
"“Judith Butler is the most creative and courageous social theorist writing today." – Cornel West“Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time.” – J. M. BernsteinJudith Butler’s new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argues that nonviolence is often misunderstood as a passive practice that ema ..."
Dispossession(1st Edition) The Performative in the Political (PCVS-Polity Conversations Series) by JudithButler, Athena Athanasiou Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2013 by Polity ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-5381-5, ISBN: 0-7456-5381-2
"Dispossession describes the condition of those who have lost land, citizenship, property, and a broader belonging to the world. This thought-provoking book seeks to elaborate our understanding of dispossession outside of the conventional logic of possession, a hallmark of capitalism, liberalism, and humanism. Can dispossession simultaneously characterize political responses and opposition to the disenfranchisement associated ..."
"Artist, psychoanalyst, and feminist theorist Bracha Ettinger presents an original theoretical exploration of shared affect and emergent expression, across the thresholds of identity and memory. Ettinger works through Lacan¡¯s late works, the anti-Oedipal perspectives of Deleuze and Guattari, as well as object-relations theory to critique the phallocentrism of mainstream Lacanian theory and to rethink the masculine-feminine opposition. S ..."
"Butler, Judith. Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative. New York, Routledge, 1997. 22 cm x 32 cm. X, 185 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear: evidence of library marking on the inside of front cover. Includes for example the following essays: 'On Linguistic Vulnerability'; 'Contagious Word: Paranoia and Homosexuality in the Military'; 'Implicit Censorship and Discursive Ag ..."
"In the hopes of promoting justice, peace, and solidarity for and with the Palestinian people, Udi Aloni joins with Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, and Judith Butler to confront the core issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Their bold question: Will a new generation of Israelis and Palestinians dare to walk together toward a joint Israel-Palestine? Through a collage of meditation, interview, diary, and essay, Aloni and his interlocuto ..."
The Livable and the Unlivable A Conversation Initiated by Arto Charpentier and Laure Barillas by JudithButler, Frédéric Worms Paperback, Published 2023 by Fordham University Press, New York ISBN-13: 978-1-5315-0274-4, ISBN: 1-5315-0274-1
"The book consists of three longer essays by Cavarero, Butler, and Honig, followed by shorter responses by a range of scholars that widen the dialogue, drawing on post-Marxism, Italian feminism, queer theory, and lesbian and gay politics."
Excitable Speech A Politics of the Performative (Routledge Classics) by JudithButler Paperback, 188 Pages, Published 2021 by Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom, London ISBN-13: 978-0-367-70524-4, ISBN: 0-367-70524-9
"Widely hailed as a tour de force and one of Butler's most important books, which in light of current debates on freedom of speech, 'no platform' and cancel culture, remains more relevant now than ever. Includes a new Preface by the author."
"Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions, analyzing what they signify and how. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, Butler extends her theory of performativity to argue that precarity―the destruction of the conditions of livability―has been a galvanizing force and theme in today’s highly visible protests. Butler broadens the theory of perform ..."
Dispossession(1st Edition) The Performative in the Political - Conversations with Athena Athanasiou 17 by JudithButler, Athena Athanasiou Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2013 by Polity Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-5380-8, ISBN: 0-7456-5380-4
"This book interrogates the agonistic and open-ended corporeality and conviviality of the crowd as it assembles in cities to protest political and economic dispossession through a performative dispossession of the sovereign subject and its ..."