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Judith Butler

• Philosopher, Feminist, Theorist, Woman

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Education

• Bennington College
• Yale University
• Where she received her B.A. and Ph. D.

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Educator

• Maxine Eliot Professor of Rhetoric Comparative
  LiteratureUniversity of California Berkeley
• Hanna Arendt Professor of Philosophy at the
  European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland

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Some Published Works

• 1990 Gender TroubleFeminism and Subversion of
  Identity
• 1993 Bodies that Matter On the Discursive Limits
  of Sex
• 1997 Excitable Speech Politics of the Perormance
• 2000 Antigones Claim Kinship, Aberration, and
  Psychoanalysis
• Compiled listing of J. Butlers published works
  available she is a busy gal.. Too many to fit on
  one presentation!

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Gender Trouble

• Female does not equal Feminine
• Man does not equal Masculine

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Gender Trouble Feminism and the Subversion of
Identity

• Gender is fluid
• I am woman, but I am not all women
• There is more than one defining point to what is
  Gender
• Identity of women is not contingent upon gender
• Sexuality is not underlying definitive of gender
• Culture does not assume gender identity
• A Binary view of gender is False

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Bodies That Matter On the Discursive Limits of
Sex

• The labels given to sex, gender, and the
  continuum are limited by the masculine that is
  language.
• Sexing is an example of the label
• Gender, Race, Class are other examples of labels
• Question what is normal

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The Language Barrier
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Bodies that Matter

• Gender is an indeterminant subject it is not
  fixed.
• Social contexts will change the sublimination of
  gender
• Culture changes gender
• Power changes individual outward appearance of
  genderization

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Judith Butler Ph. D.

• Author, Educator, Woman, Theorist, Lesbian,
  Crusader, Feminist

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Bibliography
Bodies that Matter On the Discursive Limits of
"Sex" (Routledge, 1993). http//www.egs.edu/facul
ty/butler.html European Graduate School Faculty,
Saas-Fee Switzerland. Gender Trouble Feminism
and the Subversion of Identity (Routledge,
1990). http//sun3.lib.uci.edu/scctr/Wellek/butle
r/ Published works Compiled by Eddie Yeghiayan.
The Critical Theory Institute University of
California, Irvine.