The Judith Butler Reader

Acknowledgments. Introduction. Section 1: Sex, Gender Performativity, and the Matter of Bodies. 1. Variations on Sex and Gender: Beauvoir, Wittig, Foucault (1987). 2. Excerpts from Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth--Century France (1987). 3. Excerpts from Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990). 4. Imitation and Gender Insubordination (1990). 5. Excerpt from Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of 'Sex' (1993). Section 2: Fantasy, Censorship, and Discursive Power. 6. The Force of Fantasy: Mapplethorpe, Feminism, and Discursive (1990). 7. Endangered/Endangering: Schematic Racism and White Paranoia (1993). 8. Excerpt from Excitable Speech: A Poltics of the Performative (1997). Section 3: Subjection, Kinship, and Critique. 9. Excerpt from The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection (1997). 10. Excerpt from Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left (2000). 11. Excerpt from Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death (2000). 12. What Is Critique? An Essay on Foucault's Virtue (2001). Section 4: Making Difficulty Clear. 13. Changing the Subject: Judith Butler's Politics of Radical Resignification: Gary A. Olsen and Lynn Worsham. Index