Foreword 1. Precarious Foundations: Subjects of Desire 2. Gender, Sexuality, Performance: Gender Trouble 3. Gender, Sexuality, Performance: Bodies that Matter 4. Language, Power, Performativity: Bodies that Matter 5. Language, Power, Performativity: Excitable Speech 6. Identity and Politics: The Psychic Life of Power 7. Butler on Others, Others on Butler 8. Interview: Butler Live Other Works Cited Full Bibliography
Vicki Kirby is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of New South Wales, Australia.
"A useful work for anyone interested in the impact of feminist
thought in the broad domain of cultural theory today. We could
hardly find a more generous and thorough introduction to the
complexities and impact of Butler's thoughts ... the most exciting
chapter of Kirby's admirable guide through Butler's work is her
concluding interview with this living theorist herself ... This
book provides an excellent resource for those wishing to stay in
touch with this pioneering thinker" L. Segal, Culture, Health and
Sexuality, January 2008
*L. Segal*
"Vicki Kirby's intimate exegesis of Judith Butler's oeuvre is an
appropriate place to illustrate the disquiet with cultural analyses
outlined by emerging material feminism." -Myra J. Hird, Feminist
Studies, Vol. 35, Summer 2009
'Vicki Kirby's presentation of Butler is, like Butler's own
critical reading, thoughtful and rigorous, generous yet
insubordinate. The level of scholarship here is superior: our
author glides skillfully from Hegel to Lacan, Freud to Derrida,
Althusser to Foucault, in order to capture the sense and flow of
Butler's own arguments. In a slim volume, she succeeds in treating
a wealth of complex material ... Kirby cuts quickly to the crux of
Butler's most interesting arguments and then unpacks them with
care'. Karen Kachra, Toronto, Canada.
*Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews*
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