Gender Trouble: Feminism & The Subversion Of Identity
- January 28th, 2009
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Read in 2007 & 2008: Gender Trouble: Feminism & The Subversion Of Identity by Judith Butler.
I seem to keep referring to this book during my graduate career. Butler’s ideas in Gender Trouble helped me to broaden a lot of my own ill conceived or not quite expanded upon enough ideas about gender and feminism. She offers good supplemental material to Gayle Rubin’s, who I always end up back at, work and expands in other directions about incest taboos and other subjects. Right now I am thinking a lot about her argument that sexual harassment is a form of hetronormative reinforcement.
Perhaps the most interesting work in Gender Trouble, especially the first time I read it, was Butler’s criticism of Julia Kristeva. There has always been something about Kristeva’s writing about gender that always seemed…wrong?…conservative?…really hetronormative? and Butler does a good job of explaining a lot of things I have been thinking but could never quite put into words. Still, Kristeva’s work with semiotics is essential to my own thinking, but I now temper it with Butler’s thoughts as well.
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