Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex

Written by Judith Butler

Narrated by Kelly Burke

In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power operates to constrain sex from the start, delimiting what counts as a viable sex. She clarifies the notion of "performativity" introduced in Gender Trouble and via bold readings of Plato, Irigaray, Lacan, and Freud explores the meaning of a citational politics. She also draws on documentary and literature with compelling interpretations of the film Paris is Burning, Nella Larsen's Passing, and short stories by Willa Cather.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Release date: Dec 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781032208084

Judith Butler

Judith Butler is the author of several books including Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex”, The Psychic Life of Power: Theories of Subjection, Excitable Speech, Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly, and The Force of Non-Violence. In addition to numerous academic honors and publications, Butler has published editorials and reviews in The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Nation, Time Magazine, the London Review of Books, and in a wide range of journals, newspapers, radio and podcast programs throughout Europe, Latin America, Central and South Asia, and South Africa. They live in Berkeley.

Reviews for Bodies That Matter

[NoelReneCisnerosPeña · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Butler continúa muchas de las reflexiones que planteó en Gender trouble, sobre todo en la tensión entre la identidad y el cuerpo, la falsa dicotomía de la materialidad corporal y el lenguaje que la nombra. Los capítulos, que pueden funcionar como ensayos autónomos, ofrecen la mirada sagaz y crítica de Butler, para plantearse qué es la identidad y cómo se construye (sobre todo para mujeres lesbianas y hombres gays y el resto de las personas de la diversidad sexo-genérica).