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| '''Judith Butler''' (b. ]) is a professor at the ] in ], ] and a ] academic who wrote ''Gender Trouble'' in ] and ''Bodies That Matter'' in ]. Both books describe what later came to be known as ]. One of Butler's most significant contributions to critical theory is her performative model of ], in which the categories "male" and "female" are understood as a repetition of acts instead of natural or inevitable absolutes. Butler also argued that the feminist movement cannot use or rely on a specific |
'''Judith Butler''' (b. ]) is a professor at the ] in ], ] and a ] academic who wrote ''Gender Trouble'' in ] and ''Bodies That Matter'' in ]. Both books describe what later came to be known as ]. One of Butler's most significant contributions to critical theory is her performative model of ], in which the categories "male" and "female" are understood as a repetition of acts instead of natural or inevitable absolutes. Butler also argued that the feminist movement cannot use or rely on a specific immutable definition of ''woman'', and that to do so is ] and counterproductive in that it perpetuates ]. | ||
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Judith Butler (b. 1956) is a professor at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland and a feminist academic who wrote Gender Trouble in 1990 and Bodies That Matter in 1994. Both books describe what later came to be known as 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. Butler also argued that the feminist movement cannot use or rely on a specific immutable definition of woman, and that to do so is imperialistic and counterproductive in that it perpetuates sexism.
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