Bodies That Matter

Develops the theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most "material" dimensions of sex and sexuality. This work offers a reformulation of the materiality of bodies, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender. It argues that power operates to constrain "sex" from the start. http://www.dropshippers.co.za/

In "Bodies That Matter," Judith Butler further develops her distinctive theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most "material" dimensions of sex and sexuality. Deepening the inquiries she began in "Gender" "Trouble," Butler offers an original reformulation of the materiality of bodies, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power operates to constrain "sex" from the start, delimiting what counts as a viable sex. She offers a clarification of the notion of "performativity" introduced in "Gender Trouble" and explores the meaning of a citational politics. The text includes readings of Plato, Irigaray, Lacan, and Freud on the formation of materiality and bodily boundaries; "Paris is Burning," Nella Larsen's "Passing," and short stories by Willa Cather; along with a reconsideration of "performativity" and politics in feminist, queer, and radical democratic theory. http://www.dropshippers.co.za/

• Title: Bodies That Matter
• Subtitle: On the Discursive Limits of Sex
• Imprint name: Routledge
• Table of contents: Preface Acknowledgements Part I: I Bodies that Matter II The Lesbian Phallus and the Morphological Imaginary III Phantasmatic Identification and the Assumption of Sex IV Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion Part II: V 'Dangerous Crossing': Willa Cather's Masculine Names VI Queering, Passing: Nella Larsen Rewrites Psychoanalysis VI Arguing with the Real VIII Critically Queer
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