Bodies That Matter:

What about the materiality of the body, Judy? (ix)

Bodies That Matter (1994) is a follow up to Gender Trouble: Feminism and the
Subversion of Identity, Butlers 1990 book in which she initially extended her theory of
gender as citational performance rather than a stable
category. Bodies that Matter clarifies, continues, and
expands on Butlers theorizations (and retheorizations) of
gender, the body, and categories of identity more broadly.

Judith Butler is a Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department

of Comparative Literature and the Program of Critical Theory
at UC Berkeley and holds a PhD in Phiolosophy from Yale
(1984). In addition to writing about gender, Butler has
penned numerous books and articles about religion (she is
Jewish, and has spoken fairly extensively against Zionism),
war, grief, literature and numerous other topics. She was the
recipient of the 1998 Philosophy and Literature Bad Writing
Contest. Though Butler doesnt yet have a book focusing specifically on race, she has
been

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