Judith Butler : from norms to politics / Moya Lloyd.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-196) and index.

Introduction -- Feminism, identity and difference -- From homosexual to gay and lesbian to queer -- The influence of poststructuralism -- Hegel and desiring subjects -- Postscript -- Rethinking Sex and Gender -- The trouble with women -- Feminism and the sex /gender debate -- Denaturalizing sex and gender -- Cultural intelligibility - contesting heteronormativity -- From phenomenology to performativity -- Performing gender -- Women in /and feminism -- Conclusion -- Towards a Subversive Gender Politics -- From parody to politics -- Subversive gender politics -- Performativity and subversion -- Free will versus determinism -- Enter iterability -- The ambivalence of drag -- The matter of bodies -- Politicizing abjection - making bodies matter -- Conclusion -- Psychoanalysis and the Gendered Subject -- Gender Trouble and psychoanalysis -- Rubin and 'The Traffic in Women' -- Freud and Oedipus -- Melancholic gender identifications -- Melancholia and performativity -- Lacan and Oedipus -- Assuming sex -- Locating resistance -- Kinship matters -- Psychic subjectivity -- Passionate attachment and primary dependency -- Resisting Butler -- Conclusion -- Words that Wound -- The force of the performative -- Opposing sovereign performatives -- A linguistic account of subjectivity -- Linguistic subjectivity and responsibility -- Revisiting agency - politics and resignification -- Against the state -- Conclusion -- What Makes for a Liveable Life? -- Normative violence and questions of liveability -- Corporeal vulnerability -- Mourning and grief -- Questions of recognition -- What's wrong with 'desiring the state's desire'? -- The politics of radical democracy -- Cultural translation -- Conclusion.

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