Bodies that matter : on the discursive limits of "sex"

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Summary: In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power operates to constrain sex from the start, delimiting what counts as a viable sex. She clarifies the notion of "performativity" introduced in Gender Trouble and via bold readings of Plato, Irigaray, Lacan, and Freud explores the meaning of a citational politics. She also draws on documentary and literature with compelling interpretations of the film Paris is Burning, Nella Larsen's Passing, and short stories by Willa Cather.

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Preface Acknowledgements Part I: I Bodies that Matter II The Lesbian Phallus and the Morphological Imaginary III Phantasmatic Identification and the Assumption of Sex IV Gender is Burning: Questions of Appropriation and Subversion Part II: V 'Dangerous Crossing': Willa Cather's Masculine Names VI Queering, Passing: Nella Larsen Rewrites Psychoanalysis VI Arguing with the Real VIII Critically Queer