{"product_id":"judith-butler","title":"Judith Butler","description":"\u003cp\u003eJudith Butler''s work on gender, sexuality, identity, and the body has proved massively influential across a range of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Yet it is also notoriously difficult to access. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis key book provides a comprehensive introduction to Butler''s work, plus a critical examination of it and its precursors, both feminist (including Simone de Beauvoir, Monique Wittig, Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray), and non-feminist (including Erving Goffman, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida). The volume covers such topics as:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003egender as performance and performativity \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003esociological notions of performance\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe materiality of the body and the role of biology\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003epower, identity and social regulation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003esubjectivity, agency and feminist political practice.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eA comprehensive introduction to Butler’s work, this book also covers melancholia and gender identity, hate speech, pornography and ''race'', social change and transformation, and Butler’s shifting relation to psychoanalysis. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClearly laid out to cover key themes for a student audience, this text will be an essential read for undergraduates in the fields of gender, psychoanalysis and sociology.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57310420664702,"sku":"NW9780415219754","price":61.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780415219754.jpg?v=1778582475","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/judith-butler","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}