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Bodies That Matter

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First published: 1993
Pages: 318

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Bodies That Matter is a seminal work in feminist philosophy. The author challenges essentialist views and proposes that gender performativity defines identities over time. She also scrutinizes the nature of gender norms, critiques the feminist focus on an idealized female body, and explores the subversive potential of exclusion.

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Judith Butler

Bodies That Matter (Routledge, 1993) answers readers of Gender Trouble who took Butler to have argued the body out of existence. If gender is performative, what about matter?

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