Judith Butler

Standard Name: Butler, Judith

Connections

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Intertextuality and Influence Anna Livia
In much of her criticism, Anna Livia examines the ways in which lesbian identities, relationships, and experiences are constructed in English and French language, literature, and culture. She is also fascinated by the overlap and...
Literary responses Michelene Wandor
Susanne Greenhalgh faulted the revised Post-War British Drama for being explicitly gendered and highly selective,
Greenhalgh, Susanne. “A Review of Post-War British Drama: Looking Back in Gender by Michelene Wandor”. Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol.
13
, No. 1, 2003, pp. 125-6.
125
insufficiently attentive to recent playwrights like Sarah Kane and Mark Ravenhill , and for declining to engage with the...
Literary responses Mary Shelley
When theoretical critic Barbara Johnson composed an essay on MS in 1980 she was choosing, for a symposium on Jacques Derrida , a relatively unknown topic—yet for the rest of her career she found she...
Literary responses Mary Catherine Hume
Critic Susan Brown places the poem within the context of feminist activism and the campaign against the Contagious Diseases Acts, and in relation to Judith Butler 's performative model of gender, as an instance...
Performance of text Anne Carson
AC 's translations from Greek manage to incorporate some of the quirkiness of her original texts and titles. She titled If Not, Winter. Fragments of Sappho, 2002, from a poetic scrap that leaves the...

Timeline

1989: US theorist Judith Butler published perhaps...

Writing climate item

1989

US theorist Judith Butler published perhaps her best-known work, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

Texts

Butler, Judith. “‘I merely belong to them’”. London Review of Books, pp. 26-8.