Preface ( ) Ten years ago I completed the manuscript of Gender Trouble and sent it to Routledge for publication. Thus far, I am selecting texts from the list based on my reading desires. Unlike other identity-categories such as gender, race, and sexuality, (dis)ability is not yet widely recognized as a legitimate or relevant position from which to address such broad subjects I did not know that the text would have as wide an … Bodies that Matter is a feminist philosophical attempt to (re)think „the body‟. This book review attempt to Judith Butler is a preeminent gender theorist and has played an extraordinarily influential role in shaping modern feminism. -Judith Butler (1993, 37) To invoke disability as a category of critical analysis is, at the present time, a fairly radical endeavor. (Butler 1993, xii) (See the cover at the top, with photo of Judy Garland.) Judith Butler, the writer of Bodies that Matter also uses this medium to reply the criticism of her previous book titled Gender Trouble. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Yale University in 1984. Book Description. ... (1993) and Undoing Gender (2004). Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body.Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender. And, in 1993, a group of intellectual scenesters created the ultimate punk homage to Butler’s undeniable influence: Judy!, an honest-to-goodness Judith Butler fanzine, complete with murky, mimeographed photo spreads and serial killer typescript. The work is influential in feminism, women's studies, and lesbian and gay studies, and has also enjoyed widespread popularity outside of traditional academic circles. 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 notions of gender and develop their theory of gender performativity.This theory has had a major influence on feminist and queer scholarship. As a critical rearticulation of various theoretical practices, including feminist and queer studies, this text is not intended to be programmatic. Justh Butler, Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex", New York & London: Roudedge, 1993 File history Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. 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. Selecte d parts of this essay are drawn from Butler (1993). Jacek Kornak: Judith Butler’s Queer Conceptual Politics heterosexual hegemony in the crafting of matters sexual and political. Judith Butler, Ph.D. Freud's discussion of melancholy in "Mourning and Melancholia" includes an account of identification as the incorporation of the lost ... chological Association in New York City in April of 1993. Judith Butler (1993) Today, I started Butler’s Bodies That Matter, another book in my theories of embodiment list. So, no chronological or alphabetical patterns. However, the concept of gender performativity has been used – and some would assert – abused to support a number of positions that misconstrues Butler’s work.