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Power and Legitimacy: Law, Culture, and Literature

Power and Legitimacy: Law, Culture, and Literature

Anne Quéma

In The Judith Butler Reader, edited by Sara Salih and Judith Butler, 325–56. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004. ———. “Competing Universalities.” In Contingency , Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left, by Judith Butler,  ...
The Judith Butler Reader

The Judith Butler Reader

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The Judith Butler Reader is a collection of writings that span her impressive career and trace her intellectual history.
Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative

Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative

Judith Butler

With the same intellectual courage with which she addressed issues of gender, Judith Butler turns her attention to speech and conduct in contemporary political life, looking at several efforts to target speech as conduct that has become ...
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex

Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex

Judith Butler

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.
Gender trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity

Gender trouble: feminism and the subversion of identity

Judith Butler

Judith Butler's new preface situates "Gender Trouble" within the past decade of work on gender, and counters some common misconceptions about the book and its aims.
Judith Butler in Conversation: Analyzing the Texts and Talk ...

Judith Butler in Conversation: Analyzing the Texts and Talk ...

Bronwyn Davies

Special thanks to Peter Bansel, Judith Butler, Bronwyn Davies, Sara Knox, Robert Payne, and Kerry Robinson,each of whom providedme with insight, unparalleled intellectualrigor, andhumor. For editorial advice,thanks to Penny Gay,Sara ...
Judith Butler

Judith Butler

Sara Salih

This introduction places Butler's ideas in their theoretical and philosophical contexts, analyzing her key works and their impact on contemporary thought.
Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death

Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death

Judith Butler

Butler argues that Antigone represents a form of feminist and sexual agency that is fraught with risk.
Judith Butler: From Norms to Politics

Judith Butler: From Norms to Politics

Moya Lloyd

In this lively book, Moya Lloyd provides both a clear exposition and an original critique of Butler's work.
Judith Butler e a Teoria Queer

Judith Butler e a Teoria Queer

Sara Salih

Neste livro, Sara Salih constrói uma espécie de ponto de partida para a leitura de Butler.
The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler

The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler John Mitford ... be published by Mr. Thyer, are the ' original manuscripts ' of Mr. Samuel Butler, author of Hudibras, and were bequeathed to me by the late Charles Longueville, Esq. Waleherton, Cheshire, ,' Tr»HW n \TWV " Nov.
Is Critique Secular?: Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech

Is Critique Secular?: Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech

Talal Asad

Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Saba Mahmood. Tableof Contents Contents Preface, 2013 Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Saba Mahmood vii Introduction Wendy Brown 1 Free Speech, Blasphemy,  ...
Television Studies

Television Studies

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Bobo, Jacqueline and Seiter, Ellen (1997), ''Black Feminism and Media Criticism: The Women of Brewster Place'', in Charlotte Brunsdon, Julie D''Acci and Lynn Spigel (eds), Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 167-183. Brunsdon, Charlotte, D''Acci, Julie and Spigel, Lynn (1997), Feminist Television Criticism: A Reader, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Butler, Judith (1990), Gender Trouble, New York: Routledge. Butler, Judith (1993), Bodies That ...
Giving an Account of Oneself

Giving an Account of Oneself

Judith Butler

Offers an outline for a new ethical practice - one responsive to the need for critical autonomy and grounded in a new sense of the human subject.
A Military History of Japan: From the Age of the Samurai to ...

A Military History of Japan: From the Age of the Samurai to ...

John T. Kuehn Ph.D.

11. Cited in Butler, 315; Chase, 183. 12. Butler, 314–316; Chase, 183–184. 13. Turnbull, 67–72. 14. Gainty, 344–345. 15. Butler, 314–317; Chase, 183–186. 16. Butler, 314. 17. Kenneth M. Swope, “Crouching Tigers, Secret Weapons: Military  ...
The Victorians at war, 1815-1914: an encyclopedia of British ...

The Victorians at war, 1815-1914: an encyclopedia of British ...

Harold E. Raugh

Butler, Lady Elizabeth Gordon in Khartoum, asked for Burnaby s services, but Field Marshal H.R.H. Prince George E, ... (1965) Butler, Lady Elizabeth See Artists, War; Butler, Lieutenant General Sir William F. Butler, Lieutenant General Sir ...
Undoing Gender

Undoing Gender

Judith Butler

These essays deepen her treatment of issues introduced by earlier work on the relationship between power and the body, the meaning & purpose of the incest taboo, and the problems of kinship.
The town of St. Johnsbury, Vt: a review of one hundred ...

The town of St. Johnsbury, Vt: a review of one hundred ...

Edward Taylor Fairbanks

It. Calvin Morrill Jubal Harrington Abel Butler ) Pierce Lambert Hastings Ezra Ide Lewis Pierce John Morse David Chapman John Higgins Charles Blinn Bcauman Butler Abel Butler Abel M. Rice Abel Butler David Goss, Jr Thomas Pierce, ...
Proceedings

Proceedings

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Butler, Henry, Melbourne, Australia. Butler, Captain Vere Alban, Inspector of Police, Port Louis, Mauritius. Butler, Major-General, Sir William F., K.C.B. Butt, J. M., Bank of New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand. Butterton, William, M.Inst. C.E., ...
The Genuine Poetical Remains Mr. Samuel Butler

The Genuine Poetical Remains Mr. Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

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Irish Arts Review Yearbook

Irish Arts Review Yearbook

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J 5 Until 2i August Paintings by Liam Roberts, Butler House; Drawings by Sol LeWitt, Butler Gallery; paintings by Helena Gorey and Marie Caulfield, photographs by Carmel Cleary, Technical School; sculpture by Sophie Ryder, Butler House ...
William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

Selected works by William Butler Yeats appear alongside original artwork depicting the major themes of the poems.
Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism

Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism

Judith Butler

4. Zochrot (zochrot.org/en): an organization committed to mapping, commemorating, and publicizing the destruction ofPalestinian villages and livelihoods during and after the Naqba. 5. My indebtedness here goes to Najat Rahman, whose ...
Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence

Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence

Judith Butler

An appraisal of post-September 11 America presents the U.S. government's decision to attack Afghanistan and Iraq as a response to loss and grief, arguing that the vulnerability being experienced in the western world is posing an opportunity ...
Exposing Power, Transforming God: A Process Jewish Feminist ...

Exposing Power, Transforming God: A Process Jewish Feminist ...

Arlette Poland

We now turn to Judith Plaskow, whose passionate and bold voice calls for all Jewish institutions to root out patriarchy entirely. Section 2: Judith Plaskow Introducing Judith Plaskow67 Judith Plaskow is best introduced by her own words. "If one ...
Who Sings the Nation-state?: Language, Politics, Belonging

Who Sings the Nation-state?: Language, Politics, Belonging

Judith Butler

Two noted cultural critics identify the consequences of modern-world migration and shifting allegiances that are causing states to become increasingly provisional at the expense of individual rights and national identities, drawing on ...
Poetic Epistemologies: Gender and Knowing in Women's ...

Poetic Epistemologies: Gender and Knowing in Women's ...

Megan Simpson

My analysis of these writers' different projects is informed by the work of two contemporary feminist theorists who address the question of how gender, sexuality, and subjectivity are related — Judith Butler and Elizabeth Meese. Of course the ...
Laclau: A Critical Reader

Laclau: A Critical Reader

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This stimulating collection also includes replies to his critics by Laclau and the important exchange between Laclau and Judith Butler on equality, making it an excellent companion to Laclau's work and essential reading for students of ...

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