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'''Judith Butler''' (b. [[February 24]] [[1956]]) is a prominent [[post-structuralist]] philosopher and has made major contributions to [[feminism]], [[queer theory]], [[political philosophy]] and [[ethics]]. She is Maxine Eliot professor in the Departments of [[Rhetoric]] and [[Comparative Literature]] at the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. She also has a professorial appointment at the [[European Graduate School]].
In a [[London Review of Books]] article, Butler identifies as an anti-Zionist Jewish American who is concerned with the loss of academic freedom implicitly advocated by pro-Israeli groups.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.lrb.co.uk/v25/n16/butl02_.html | title=No, it's not anti-semitic | author=Judith Butler | work=London Review of Books | accessdate=April 5 | accessyear=2006}}</ref>
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Hegel and Foucault 253
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homosexuality 269-73, 279
passionate attachments 265-9, 282,
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queer struggle 225
resistance 260-64
sexual difference 274-5
subjectivity and sexuality 257-9
==Eternity==
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==Lacan's hegemonic imaginary==
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Hegel and Foucault 253
melancholy mechanism and homosexuality 269-73, 279
passionate attachments 265-9, 282, 288-9
queer struggle 225
resistance 260-64
sexual difference 274-5
subjectivity and sexuality 257-9
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<ref>Žižek, S. (2000) [[The Fragile Absolute]], or Why the Christian Legacy is Worth Fighting For, London and New York: Verso. p.105</ref></blockquote>
==Major works==
* 2005: ''Giving An Account of Oneself''
* 2004: ''[[Undoing Gender]]''
* 2004: ''Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence''
* 2000: ''Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left (with Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Žižek)''
* 2000: ''Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death''
* 1997: ''The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection''
* 1997: ''Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative''
* 1993: ''[[Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"]]''
* 1990: ''[[Gender Trouble]]'': ''Feminism and the Subversion of Identity''
* 1987: ''Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France''
== Notes ==
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==External links=={{wikiquote}}*[http://rhetoric.berkeley.edu/faculty_bios/judith_butler.html Berkeley Faculty Biography - Judith Butler]*[http://www.egs.edu/faculty/judithbutler.html European Graduate School Faculty Website - Judith Butler]*[http://www.theory.org.uk/ctr-butl.htm theory.org.uk - Judith Butler Resources]*[http://sun3.lib.uci.edu/indiv/scctr/Wellek/butler/ A comprehensive Judith Butler bibliography] [[Category:1956 births|Butler, Judith]][[Category:20th century philosophers|Butler, Judith]][[Category:21st century philosophers|Butler, Judith]][[Category:Feminist scholars|Butler, Judith]][[Category:Gender studies|Butler, Judith]][[Category:Jewish American writers|Butler, Judith]][[Category:Lesbian writers|Butler, Judith]][[Category:LGBT philosophers|Butler, Judith]][[Category:Living people|Butler, Judith]][[Category:Marxist theorists|Butler, Judith]][[Category:Philosophers|Butler, Judith]][[Category:Philosophy of sexuality|Butler, JudithSexuality]]
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