This author introduced the idea of corporeal vulnerability in a work calling for the re-emergence of poststructuralist political critique in the post-9/11 world, Precarious Life; and along with Gayatri Spivak called political boundaries obsolete in Who Sings the Nation-State?
This author introduced the idea of corporeal vulnerability in a work calling for the re-emergence of poststructuralist political critique in the post-9/11 world, Precarious Life; and along with Gayatri Spivak called political boundaries obsolete in Who Sings the Nation-State? Another of this thinker's texts, which critiques the "objet petit a" of Zizek and Lacan and includes an essay on "Paris is Burning", attempts to probe the "discursive limits" of a certain category often presumed to be material. That work is a follow up to her most famous book, which criticizes the "grand narrative" of psychoanalysis and calls for "drag" as a corrective parody, and is subtitled "Feminism and the Subversion of Identity". Advocate of the idea of "gender performativity", FTP, name this author of Bodies That Matter and Gender Trouble.
This author introduced the idea of corporeal vulnerability in a work calling for the re-emergence of poststructuralist political critique in the post-9/11 world, Precarious Life; and along with Gayatri Spivak called political boundaries obsolete in Who Sings the Nation-State?
Judith {Butler}