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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]].

Butler received her Ph.D. in [[Philosophy]] from [[Yale University]] in 1984, and her dissertation was subsequently published as ''Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France''. In the late-1980s, between different teaching/research appointments (most notably at the Humanities Center at [[Johns Hopkins University]]), she was involved in "poststructuralist" efforts within Western feminist theory to question the "presuppositional terms" of [[feminism]].