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The Question of Gender Judith Butler

The Question of Gender By Judith Butler

The Question of Gender by Judith Butler

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Gender as a category of analysis in the 21st century

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The Question of Gender: Joan W. Scott's Critical Feminism by Judith Butler

A generation after the publication of Joan W. Scott's influential essay, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis," this volume explores the current uses of the termand the ongoing influence of Scott's agenda-setting work in history and other disciplines. How has the study of gender, independently or in conjunction with other axes of differencesuch as race, class, and sexualityinflected existing fields of study and created new ones? To what extent has this concept modified or been modified by related paradigms such as women's and queer studies? With what discursive politics does the term engage, and with what effects? In what settings, and through what kinds of operations and transformations, can gender remain a useful category in the 21st century? Leading scholars from history, philosophy, literature, art history, and other fields examine how gender has translated into their own disciplinary perspectives.

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The scholarship and the writing here is engaging and imaginative (see in particular Gayle Salamon's paper on transgenderism and Merleau-Ponty), and there is a keen sense of what's at stake in a field that seems to have, in Joan W. Scott's words, only paradoxes to offer.51.2 2014

* COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STUDIES *

[T]he book sheds light on the continued power of feminist scholarship following poststructuralism. It provides many models of engaged, provocative, critical, and careful writing that constitute feminist scholarship at its best.


The Question of Gender collects cutting-edge research by some of the most prominent contemporary feminist scholars.

* Women's Studies Quarterly *

[The editors] provide fresh analyses of the state of gender studies and the dynamic theories of 'sexual difference' as proposed, tested, and critiqued by Joan Wallach Scott.

* American Historical Review *

About Judith Butler

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and Co-director of the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity; Undoing Gender; and Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?

Elizabeth Weed is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University and Director of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. She is editor of Coming to Terms: Feminism/Theory/Politics and editor (with Naomi Schor) of Feminism Meets Queer Theory (IUP, 1997) and The Essential Difference (IUP, 1994).

Table of Contents

Introduction, Judith Butler and Elizabeth Weed

Part I: Reading Joan Wallach Scott
1. Speaking Up, Talking Back: Joan Scott's Critical Feminism, Judith Butler

Part II: The Case of History
2. Language, Experience, and Identity: Joan W. Scott and the Theoretical Challenge to Historical Studies, Miguel A. Cabrera
3. Out of Their Orbit: Celebrities and Eccentrics in Nineteenth-Century France, Mary Louise Roberts
4. Historicially Speaking: Gender and Citizenship in Colonial India, Mrinalini Sinha
5. Gender and the Figure of the 'Moderate Muslim': Feminism in the Twenty-first Century, Elora Shehabuddin
6. A Double-Edged Sword: Sexual Democracy, Gender Norms, and Racialized Rhetoric, Eric Fassin

Part III: Seeing the Question
7. Seeing beyond the Norm: Interpreting Gender in the Visual Arts, Mary D. Sheriff
8. Unlikely Couplings: The Gendering of Print Technology in the French Fin-de-Siecle, Janis Bergman-Carton
9. Screening the Avant-Garde Face, Mary Ann Doane

Part IV: Body and Sexuality in Question
10. The Sexual Schema: Transposition and Transgenderism in Phenomenology of Perception, Gayle Salamon
11. Foucault and Feminism's Prodigal Children, Lynne Huffer
12. From the 'Useful' to the 'Impossible' in Joan W. Scott, Elizabeth Weed

Thinking in Time: An Epilogue on Ethics and Politics, Wendy Brown

Contributors
Index

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GOR010184854
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The Question of Gender: Joan W. Scott's Critical Feminism by Judith Butler
Judith Butler
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Indiana University Press
2011-07-20
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