{"product_id":"gender-trouble-9780415389556","title":"Gender Trouble","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith intellectual reference points that include Foucault and Freud, Wittig, Kristeva and Irigaray, this is one of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years and is perhaps the essential work of contemporary feminist thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘Indispensable for feminist theory.’\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cem\u003eHypatia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘At times brilliant, always groundbreaking, \u003cem\u003eGender Trouble\u003c\/em\u003e is bound to make some trouble of its own.’\u003c\/strong\u003e -\u003cem\u003e Outweek\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘The most authoritative attack to date on the \"naturalness\" of gender. This is a brilliant and innovative book.’\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cem\u003eSandra Lee Bartky\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Rereading this book, as well as reading it for the first time, reshapes the categories through which we experience and perform our lives and bodies. To be troubled in this way is an intellectual pleasure and a political necessity.'\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cem\u003eDonna Haraway\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface (1999) Preface (1990) \u003cstrong\u003e1. Subjects of Sex\/Gender\/Desire\u003c\/strong\u003e I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex\/Gender\/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement \u003cstrong\u003e2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix \u003c\/strong\u003e I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power \u003cstrong\u003e3. Subversive Bodily Acts \u003c\/strong\u003eI. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions \u003cstrong\u003eConclusion - From Parody to Politics\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733752623447,"sku":"9780415389556","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415389556.jpg?v=1720001524","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gender-trouble-9780415389556","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}