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	Literary Encyclopedia: Judith Butler
		Judith Butler is one of the most important and influential feminist theorists in the academy today.
		In the mid-80s Butler was introduced to the work of Michel Foucault, whose corpus was to become a major influence on her thinking and writing.
		Butler also became increasingly interested in French theory during these years and revised her dissertation in light of her readings of Foucault, Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5173 (522 words)

	Metaphysics of Feminism: On Judith Butler (Eldred)
		Butler and others claim to put a critical distance between their own thinking and the traditional, purportedly phallological, and therefore, oppressive discourse of metaphysics, which is accused of being "naturalizing" and "ahistorical" and, along with that, of erecting an "ontology of substances" (p.25).
		Butler's writing strategy of putting scare quotes around certain words derived from 'to be' and claiming that certain nouns are not nouns (substantives in an older terminology) does nothing at all to free her from the strictures of the metaphysics of substance, but rather indicates how helplessly and unknowingly she is entangled within such strictures.
		Butler's insistence on signifying practices as the bond constituting society still lies within the ambit of the Western beginnings, but she does not know that her discourse is thus situated and so merely reproduces unknowingly a certain ontology whilst claiming to be free of it.
	www.webcom.com /artefact/mtphysfm.html (2729 words)

	Bad Writing
		Its one purpose is to confirm Butler's authority as a leader of the academic left.
		Butler's colleague at Berkeley, read a paper in which he criticized the circularity of Freudian theory, which confirms itself by means of evidence manufactured by the very premises it seeks to confirm.
		Pouncing on the phrase "community standards," Butler declared that it entails—as Crews summarized her position—"a tendency to fall in line with social ‘normativity’ in general, especially as it applies to the imposing of heterosexist values and rules on people who should be left in peace to pursue their own goals and pleasures."
	www-english.tamu.edu /pers/fac/myers/bad_writing.html (1873 words)

	Judith Butler - Hannah Arendt Professor of Philosophy - Bibliography
		Butler, Judith and Maureen MacGrogan (eds), Linda Singer.
		Judith Butler Revels in the Role of Troublemaker.
		Butler, Judith, Irene Costera Meijer and Baukje Prins (Interview).
	www.egs.edu /faculty/judithbutler.html (451 words)

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		Butler wants to show that gender is not just a social construct, but rather a kind of performance, a show we put on, a set of signs we wear, as costume or disguise--hence as far from essence as can be.
		Butler then looks at psychoanalysis as a "grand narrative," about how "woman" as a unitary category is formed.
		Butler wants to understand gendered subjectivity "as a history of identifications, parts of which can be brought into play in given contexts and which, precisely because they encode the contingencies of personal history, do not always point back to an internal coherence of any kind" (331).
	www.colorado.edu /English/courses/ENGL2012Klages/butler.html (1031 words)

	www.theory.org.uk Resources: Judith Butler interview
		Butler: One of the interpretations that has been made of Gender Trouble is that there is no sex, there is only gender, and gender is performative.
		Butler: The problem with drag is that I offered it as an example of performativity, but it has been taken up as the paradigm for performativity.
		[Butler is then asked about the way in which she apparently ignores biological constraints on bodies, most obviously the fact that male bodies can't produce children whilst female bodies can].
	www.theory.org.uk /but-int1.htm (3579 words)

	The Believer - Interview with Judith Butler
		Butler proclaims that the answer to that question gets at the very possibility of war, and of a meaningful peace.
		Butler has also published widely in the arena of political theory, from her book Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative to recent articles in The Nation on the ramifications of the indefinite detention of accused terrorists at Guantanamo Bay.
		Judith Butler should be thanked for her patience with a cat named The Rhombus, who is not a human being, and whose contributions to the conversation have been removed.
	www.believermag.com /issues/200305/?read=interview_butler (5485 words)

	LRB \| Judith Butler : No, it's not anti-semitic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The world of public discourse would then be one from which critical perspectives would be excluded, and the public would come to understand itself as one that does not speak out in the face of obvious and illegitimate violence.
		Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at Berkeley, is writing a book on the critique of state violence in Jewish thought.
		Judith Butler commemorates 'one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century'
	www.londonreviewofbooks.com /v25/n16/butl02_.html (3523 words)

	Thistle Dance Publishing Artists
		Butler has no predilections for quotation and appropriation of other visual art, nor is his art literary except insofar as his creative imagination is fundamentally that of a storyteller.
		Butler's attitude on the fundamental issue is nevertheless rigorously current although his practice is solitary, even marginalized, which, given our sensitivity to the intrinsic validity of individuated voices might be deemed unfortunate but for the fact that creative intelligence often prospers in unlikely forms and places.
		Butler may have become an artist because of a powerful internal need to describe the world and change it; he is an artist because he embodies his descriptions in specific media which have their own histories.
	www.thistledance.com /art_Butler.html (3921 words)

	Denison hosts Judith Butler to discuss 'Precarious Life'
		Butler's visit is co-sponsored by the women's studies program, the philosophy department and the Laura C. Harris fund.
		Butler's work spans from cultural studies and philosophy to political theory and gender studies, and she explores such issues as speech and conduct in contemporary political life and the role cultural prejudices play in genetic studies of sex determination.
		Butler has written extensively on questions of identity in politics, gender and sexuality and her books include Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex", Excitable Speech: Politics of the Performance and Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death.
	www.denison.edu /publicaffairs/pressreleases/butler.html (245 words)

	ttgapers store - USA - Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative - Judith Butler - Product Details :: ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Butler illuminates the efficacy of injurious language, covering speech act therapy in both philosophical and literary traditions, Supreme Court cases, hate speech and pornography critics, and recent bans on gay speech in the military.
		Butler does a good job grounding speech act theory in political and legal issues, particularly racist and homophobic "hate speech." She takes Derrida's theory of iterability and shows how repetition of discourse in new contexts can be a means of resistance.
		Butler questions the contemporary practices of the adjudication of speech which seeks to define what is correct speech and what is proscribable under law.
	www.ttgapers.com /module-ttStore-product-asin-0415915880-locale-us.html (1080 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Judith Butler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Judith Butler is a feminist academic who wrote Gender Trouble in 1990 and Gender Turbulency in 2000.
		Both books describe what later came to be known as the queer theory.
		One of Butler's most significant contributions to critical theory is her performative model of gender, in which the categories "male" and "female" are understood as a repetition of acts instead of natural or inevitable absolutes.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ju/Judith_Butler (98 words)

	Judith Butler
		Butler is careful, however, to not borrow the models Foucault uses, thereby, avoids some of the mistakes and gaps that occur in his thinking, namely the silence on women.
		Judith Butler is interested in the concept of ambivalence because she sees it as a site of subversion.
		Butler cannot see a way to refuse the interpellating call, or chain of calls, outright, for it is through interpellation that the subject is constituted, and therefore, the 'I' who would oppose its construction is always in some sense drawing from that construction to articulate its opposition.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/b/butler_judith.htm (1030 words)

	The Sokal Affair beneath the surface (by L. Proyect)
		Butler's article is a defense of the "merely cultural" against conservative Marxism.
		Butler frames the fight with left cultural studies in one corner and "more orthodox forms of Marxism" in the other.
		According to Butler, Fraser, author of "Justice Interruptus," has developed a schema where genuine oppression is related to one's participation in the political economy either as workers or as family members.
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/modernism/sokal2.htm (2891 words)

	The Judith Butler Reader Summary (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Her innovative and politically far-reaching insight that gender is performative and that identity is a scene of construction continues to exert a crucial impact in numerous critical-theoretical fields, including politics, philosophy, feminist and queer theory, literary and cultural studies.
		Behind Butler’s radical theorizations of gender, sex, sexuality, power, and "race" lies the urgent normative inquiry into the differential way the human is produced and effaced within the field of contemporary power.
		The Judith Butler Reader is a collaborative effort by Sara Salih and Judith Butler to bring together writings that span Butler’s impressive career as a critical philosopher, including selections from both well-known and lesser-known works.
	www.shvoong.com /f/books/52538-judith-butler-reader (192 words)

	Judith Butler
		Judith Butler is a feminist academic who wrote Gender Trouble in 1990 and Gender Turbulency in 2000.
		One of Butler's most significant contributions to critical theory is her performative model of gender, in which the categories "male" and "female" are understood as a repetition of acts instead of natural or inevitable absolutes.
		Judith Butler Faculty Website European Graduate School (http://www.egs.edu/faculty/judithbutler.html)
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ju/Judith_Butler.html (73 words)

	Bad Subjects: Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism: A Response to Judith Butler
		Butler expounds that the charge of anti-Semitism is the worst one that could be made to any Jew, a devastating moral charge for a Jewish academic like herself, one that would amount to an affront to academic freedom.
		Butler points out an important fact: positioning in the Middle Eastern politics ought not to be either fully pro-Palestinian or pro-Israeli, and I fully agree with her.
		Throughout her critical corpus, Butler expounds that identity is mediated by discourse, that polyglossia defines this discourse; she undoubtedly acknowledges that we cannot construct meanings from one day to the other transforming discursive spaces and their field(s) of reception.
	www.bad.eserver.org /issues/2004/70/siegel.html (4850 words)

	Amazon.fr : The Judith Butler Reader: Livres en anglais: Judith P. Butler,Sara Salih (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Her innovative and politically far-reaching insight that gender is performative and that identity is a scene of construction continues to exert a crucial impact in numerous critical-theoretical fields, including politics, philosophy, feminist and queer theory, literary and cultural studies.
		The Judith Butler Reader is a collaborative effort by Sara Salih and Judith Butler to bring together writings that span Butler’s impressive career as a critical philosopher, including selections from both well-known and lesser-known works.
		Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.
	www.amazon.fr /Judith-Butler-Reader-P/dp/0631225943 (462 words)

	Amardeep Singh: Judith Butler's Obituary of Derrida: Lamenting the failure to communicate
		Amardeep Singh: Judith Butler's Obituary of Derrida: Lamenting the failure to communicate
		Judith Butler's Obituary of Derrida: Lamenting the failure to communicate
		The subject line is "Judith Butler on Derrida for the German newspapers." I don't know whether it has already appeared in the papers yet, or where it is likely to come out.
	www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2004/10/judith-butlers-obituary-of-derrida.html (911 words)

	Judith Butler's Abstract General Subject by Andy Blunden 2005
		Not so for poststructuralism, and not so for Judith Butler, who shares the poststructuralist concept of subjectivity though with her own conception of how subjects are constituted.
		What Judith Butler calls a “subject”; is what is elsewhere called a “subject position,” i.e., a location within a network of social relations, into which a person inserts themself or is inserted by social forces, according to pre-existing relations or inessential personal attributes, and which forms a “standpoint” for their ethical disposition, activity and knowledge-formation.
		But at the same time, Butler retains the meaning of “subject”; as the authorised, speaking “I,” – it is that aspect of the definition of subject which she is seeking to deconstruct.
	home.mira.net /~andy/works/butler.htm (1468 words)

	Judith Butler - Psyche der Macht - Perlentaucher.de, Kultur und Literatur Online
		Judith Butler, geboren 1956, lehrt Rhetorik, Komparatistik und Gender Studies in Berkeley, Kalifornien.
		Judith Butler denkt das Subjekt machttheoretisch mit Michel Foucault - ohne jedoch den Gedanken an die Möglichkeit von Autonomie aufzugeben.
		Und zwar gewinnt das Individuum, nach Butler, seine Autonomie paradox gerade durch eine Unterwerfung unter ein allgemeines Gesetz.
	www.perlentaucher.de /buch/7447.html (523 words)

	How Judith Butler Wrecked my Marriage or (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Most startling to me was her suggestion that the soul–a seat of identity–was a kind of double fantasy; the first fantasy was that the identity within the soul was somehow innate, and the second was a fantasy that something like a soul even exists.
		I’ll never pretend to fully understand Butler, but I took her to mean that gender never exists outside the meanings we choose to give it.
		It’s hard to read a book by Butler and then not see the world anew with its endless stream of constructions and manipulations–not of an actual gender, but of the concept of gender, the meaning of "woman" and "man." To act like a man becomes very problematic.
	faculty.plattsburgh.edu /gary.kroll/papers/how_judith_butler_wrecked_my_mar.htm (643 words)

	Judith Butler - Kritik der ethischen Gewalt - Perlentaucher.de, Kultur und Literatur Online
		In Auseinandersetzung mit Adorno, Cavarrero, Foucault, Levinas und der Psychoanalyse zeigt Butler, daß jede dieser Theorien etwas ethisch Bedeutsames enthält, das sich aus den Grenzen ergibt, die jedem Versuch gezogen sind, Rechenschaft von sich selbst abzulegen: Noch in demjenigen, das wir "ethisches Scheitern" nennen, steckt eine ethischeWertigkeit und Bedeutsamkeit.
		Auf die Frage, warum wir letztlich moralisch sein sollten, antworte Butler: "Weil wir alle verletzlich sind, sind wir allen verpflichtet." Radikal ethisch zu sein, führt Assheuer diesen Gedanken aus, heißt, moralisch zu sein, ohne einer Norm zu folgen.
		Ein Plädoyer für eine Moral "aus der Anerkenntnis der eigenen Widersprüchlichkeit" sieht Rezensent Friedrich Wilhelm Graf in Judith Butlers "bisweilen sehr dunklen" Frankfurter Vorlesung "Kritik der ethischen Gewalt".
	www.perlentaucher.de /buch/14244.html (688 words)

	Judith Butler Was Body Slammed In Wall Street Journal \| Slog \| The Stranger's Blog \| The Stranger \| Seattle's Only ...
		Near the end of the short article, Judith Butler, a brilliant theorist, gets body slammed by a Kantian philosopher, Dennis Dutton, who, like so many of his American colleagues, is of the numb opinion that critical theory is all show and no substance.
		In this case, however, I agree with the other commentators: Butler's prose says nothing substantive, is dull and repetitive, and uses $5 words to confuse and obfuscate her own lack of any real handle on what she claims to be discussing.
		Of course the Butler passage is silly nonsense.
	thestranger.com /blog/2006/04/judith_butler_w (941 words)

	Critical Theory: Judith Butler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Judith Butler attended Bennington College and then Yale University, where she received her B.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy, but her first training in philosophy took place at the synagogue in her hometown of Cleveland.
		Butler has written extensively on questions of identity politics, gender, and sexuality.
		The subject, for Butler, is never absolutely male or female; it is in a state of flux, with identity always socially constituted and context dependent.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litLinks/critical/butler.htm (317 words)

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