{"product_id":"judith-butler-gill-jagger-9780415219747","title":"Judith Butler: Sexual Politics, Social Change and the Power of the Performative","description":"\u003cp\u003eJudith Butler's work on gender, sexuality, identity, and the body has proved massively influential across a range of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Yet it is also notoriously difficult to access. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis key book provides a comprehensive introduction to Butler's work, plus a critical examination of it and its precursors, both feminist (including Simone de Beauvoir, Monique Wittig, Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray), and non-feminist (including Erving Goffman, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida). The volume covers such topics as: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003egender as performance and performativity \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003esociological notions of performance\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ethe materiality of the body and the role of biology\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003epower, identity and social regulation\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003esubjectivity, agency and feminist political practice.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eA comprehensive introduction to Butler's work, this book also covers melancholia and gender identity, hate speech, pornography and 'race', social change and transformation, and Butler's shifting relation to psychoanalysis. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClearly laid out to cover key themes for a student audience, this text will be an essential read for undergraduates in the fields of gender, psychoanalysis and sociology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gill Jagger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415219744\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415219747\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/31\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.60d","brand":"Gill Jagger","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086574465279,"sku":"9780415219747","price":190.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7772006a-ae18-4dfd-92fe-925c09af9551.jpg?v=1769095466","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/judith-butler-gill-jagger-9780415219747","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}