Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex (Routledge Classics)[关于身体：性别的推论限制]

InBodiesThatMatter,renownedtheoristandphilosopherJudithButlerarguesthattheoriesofgenderneedtoreturntothemostmaterialdimensionofsexandsexuality:thebody.Butleroffersabrilliantreworkingofthebody,examininghowthepowerofheterosexualhegemonyformsthe"matter"ofbodies,sex,andgender.Butlerarguesthatpoweroperatestoconstrainsexfromthestart,delimitingwhatcountsasaviablesex.Sheclarifiesthenotionof"performativity"introducedinGenderTroubleandviaboldreadingsofPlato,Irigaray,Lacan,andFreudexploresthemeaningofacitationalpolitics.ShealsodrawsondocumentaryandliteraturewithcompellinginterpretationsofthefilmParisisBurning,NellaLarsen'sPassing,andshortstoriesbyWillaCather.