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Author: Butler, Judith [Editor]; Weed, Elizabeth [Editor];
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by Judith Butler (Editor); Elizabeth Weed (Editor)

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A generation after the publication of Joan W. Scott's influential essay, Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis, this volume explores the current uses of the term--and the ongoing influence of Scott's agenda-setting work in history and other disciplines. How has the study of gender, independently or in conjunction with other axes of difference--such as race, class, and sexuality--inflected existing fields of study and created new ones? To what extent has this concept modified or been modified by related paradigms such as women's and queer studies? With what discursive politics does the term engage, and with what effects? In what settings, and through what kinds of operations and transformations, can gender remain a useful category in the 21st century? Leading scholars from history, philosophy, literature, art history, and other fields examine how gender has translated into their own disciplinary perspectives.

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Title The Question of Gender: Joan W. Scott's Critical Feminism
Author Judith Butler (Editor); Elizabeth Weed (Editor)
Binding Hardcover
Pages 330
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Indiana University Press
Date 2011-07
Illustrated Yes
ISBN 9780253356369 / 0253356369
Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
Dimensions 9.2 x 6.3 x 1 in (23.37 x 16.00 x 2.54 cm)
Library of Congress subjects Sex role, Feminist theory
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011004520
Dewey Decimal Code 305.420

About the author

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and Co-director of the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity; Undoing Gender; and Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?

Elizabeth Weed is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University and Director of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. She is editor of Coming to Terms: Feminism/Theory/Politics and editor (with Naomi Schor) of Feminism Meets Queer Theory (IUP, 1997) and The Essential Difference (IUP, 1994).