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 | | Judith Butler: Essential Guides for Literary Studies (Routledge Critical Thinkers) by Sara Salih ISBN-10: 9780415215183 ISBN-10: 0-415-21518-8 ISBN-13: 9780415215183 ISBN-13: 978-0-415-21518-3 Hardcover 2002-05-10 Routledge Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description A welcome addition to the Routledge Critical Thinkers series, Judith Butler is the first guidebook on this renowned feminist and queer theory scholar, which will help not only students of literary criticism but also students of law, sociology, philosophy, film and cultural studies. Examining Butler's work through a variety of contexts, including the formation of gender performativity, identity and subjecthood, Sarah Salih address Butler's crucial ideas on the gender agenda, the body, pornography, race, gay self-expression and power and psychoanalysis. Concluding with an annotated bibliography, this book will be the ideal starting point for all new to Butler. | ||
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Coming to [t]erms with Butler Sara Salih has written a wonderfully concise and at times illuminating introduction to one of the key thinkers of post-structuralist feminism, queer theory, and gender studies. Salih dissects Butlers work energetically - moving from `gender performativity' to `femininity', `language', `the psyche' and so on. Sara is clearly an expert when it comes to Butler and this mastery articulates itself in very concise and accessible language which ultimately benefits the reader. Salih's only failing is her seemingly uncritical stance towards Butler, which at times comes across as dogmatic (especially when she's defending Butler's ridiculous, at times unreasonably esoteric writing). This however shouldn't deter anyone from reading this otherwise excellent introduction. - 9/10 Another excellent Routledge introduction | ||