Judith Butler

One of the most significant theorists of our time, American philosopher Judith Butler has made a decisive contribution to the fields of feminist theory, political philosophy, psychoanalytic theory, and social and cultural criticism. Her groundbreaking work covers a wide range of themes: gender identity, sexuality, kinship, power relations, discourse, subjectivity, performativity, and critique. Judith Butler is the Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Her works include: "Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France" (Columbia University Press, 1987), "Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity" (Routledge, 1990), "Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of 'Sex'" (Routledge, 1993), "The Psychic Life of Power: Theories of Subjection" (Stanford University Press, 1997), "Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative" (Routledge, 1997), "Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death" (Columbia University Press, 2000), "Hegemony, Contingency, Universality" (with Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek, Verso Press, 2000), "Precarious Life: Powers of Violence and Mourning" (Verso Press, 2004), "The Judith Butler Reader" (edited by Sara Salih with Judith Butler, Blackwell Publishing, 2004), "Undoing Gender" (Routledge, 2004), "Giving an Account of Oneself" (Fordham University Press, 2005), "Who Sings the Nation-State?: Language, Politics, Belonging" (with Gayatri Spivak, 2007), "Frames of War: When is Life Grievable?" (2009).