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Title: Gender Trouble by Judith P. Butler, Linda J. Nicholson ISBN: 0-415-90042-5 Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul Pub. Date: January, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (18 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant and Moving
Comment: I've found Gender Trouble to be incredibly clear and honest in its argument. Butler provides a thoroughly groundbreaking geneaology of gender representations (if we should call them such), and successfully manages to combine many difficult theories and influences. In response to the previous reviewer, it seems twice as pretentious to disregard this phenomenal work due to so-called lack of clarity and coherence as to accept it for what it is: one of the most thoughtful and important critiques of feminism and gender in this century. Anyway, read it yourself and decide. In my opinion, it's well worth it.
Rating: 5
Summary: ten years later, still state-of-art
Comment: Gender Trouble is simply the best available survey and critique of the philosophical work of the leading theorists of French intellectual feminism from Beauvoir on down to Irigaray, Wittig, and Kristeva. Her work owes a significant debt to Michel Foucault's work on discourses of power, a debt which is chiefly acknowledged in the simple fact that everyone except Foucault takes a serious bashing. Beyond the pleasures of intellectual fireworks, the book is politically important for two reasons. First, it shows where many feminist positions fall into the traps of categories which reproduce the conditions they seek to evade; second, she addresses the question of action. Elaine Marks and Isabelle de Courtivron warned twenty five years ago that real feminism needs two parts: a theory of women's oppression and a plan of action. Butler, unlike many feminist intellectuals, proposes a plan of action. The book is ideal as a cap to a course of readings in feminist theory. One final note: recent attacks on Judith for her obscure language are unfair and misguided. Would you attack cancer researchers for their obscure language? What about the engineers whose obscure calculations enable us to drive the highways or take an elevator with relative safety? Judith is a specialist who has mastered the language of her field. She is simply the best we have. The book requires patience, but the rewards of thoughtful reading and re-reading are great. Thanks, Ms B.
Rating: 4
Summary: difficult, but important
Comment: Though I agree with what others have written of Butler's prose, I think her approach to the ubiquitous "nature versus nurture" question of gender is an important one (politically, socially, culturally, psychologically...) At times her rhetoric is questionable & her ideas somewhat biased (to the point of bordering on... well, less than practical). However, that should not, by any means, dissuade anyone from reading her work. Despite the difficulties it might present, "Gender Trouble" is challenging, thoughtful and thought-provoking-- an enlightening experience for anyone willing to put forth some effort.
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Title: Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex by Judith P. Butler ISBN: 0415903661 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: October, 1993 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The History of Sexuality : An Introduction by Michel Foucault ISBN: 0679724699 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 April, 1990 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Epistemology of the Closet by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ISBN: 0520078748 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: February, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.15 |
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Title: Discipline & Punish : The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault ISBN: 0679752552 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 25 April, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto-Sterling ISBN: 0465077145 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 22 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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