Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex

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Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex is a 1993 philosophical and gender theory book by Judith Butler that further develops her concept of gender performativity by examining how material bodies are produced and constrained through discourse and power.

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instanceOf book
gender studies book
philosophy book
argues that material bodies are shaped by regulatory norms
that sex is not a pre-discursive given
author Judith Butler NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
developsConcept gender performativity
examines constraints placed on bodies by power
how bodies are produced through discourse
field feminist theory
gender studies
philosophy
queer theory
follows Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity NERFINISHED
genre feminist theory
gender theory
philosophy
hasSubject materiality
normativity
performativity
regulatory power
sexual difference
influencedBy Jacques Derrida NERFINISHED
Michel Foucault NERFINISHED
psychoanalytic theory
language English
mainTopic discourse and power
gender performativity
materiality of the body
queer theory
sex and gender
notableFor extending the theory of gender performativity
influencing contemporary gender and queer theory
publicationYear 1993
theoreticalFramework postmodern feminism
poststructuralism

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Judith Butler hasPublicationYearForWork Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex
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