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Judith Butler

Contemporary (20th-21st century)

Judith Butler (born 1956) is an American philosopher and gender theorist whose work has profoundly influenced contemporary feminist theory, queer theory, and political philosophy. They are best known for their theory of gender performativity, developed in their groundbreaking 1990 book 'Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.' Butler is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and their work continues to engage with questions of power, vulnerability, ethics, and resistance.

PhilosophyGender TheoryPerformance Studies

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of 'Sex'
The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection
Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative
Undoing Gender
Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?
Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly

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