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Judith Butler, née le 24 février 1956 à Cleveland, est une philosophe américaine, professeure à l'Université Berkeley depuis 1993.

Une thématique importante de sa réflexion est celle de la vulnérabilité. Ses premiers écrits portent, dans le sillage de la French theory, sur l'ambivalence du sujet en tant que soumis à un pouvoir et produit par cette soumission même. Sa théorisation de la « performativité du genre », à partir du triple héritage de la théorie austinienne des actes de langage, du féminisme français et de la déconstruction, a constitué un apport majeur dans le champ des études féministes et queer.

Ses écrits ultérieurs, qui sont l'occasion d'une critique de la politique étrangère des États-Unis de l'après–11-Septembre, traitent de la guerre, du deuil et des figures de la dépossession comme le prisonnier extra-juridique ou le réfugié. Judith Butler est intervenue publiquement sur des questions politiques contemporaines, comme celle des droits des homosexuels et, plus récemment, sur le conflit israélo-palestinien.

✵ 24. février 1956
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“L'incapacité à reconnaître les processus culturels spécifiques de l'oppression de genre elle-même n'est-elle pas une forme d'impérialisme épistémologique?”

Judith Butler livre Trouble dans le genre

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Judith Butler: Citations en anglais

“If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that heterosexuality issues from a disappointed homosexuality?”

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Judith Butler livre Trouble dans le genre

Source: Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

“If the immutable character of sex is contested, perhaps this construct called ‘sex’ is as culturally constructed as gender; indeed, perhaps it was always already gender, with the consequence that the distinction between sex and gender turns out to be no distinction at all.”

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"Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity" (1990)

“The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, convergence, and rearticulation brought the question of temporality into the thinking of structure, and marked a shift from a form of Althusserian theory that takes structural totalities as theoretical objects to one in which the insights into the contingent possibility of structure inaugurate a renewed conception of hegemony as bound up with the contingent sites and strategies of the rearticulation of power.”

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"Further Reflections on the Conversations of Our Time" (1997), which received first place in the Philosophy and Literature Bad Writing Contest

“We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.”

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“Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision.”

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“To operate within the matrix of
power is not the same as to replicate uncritically relations of domination.”

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Judith Butler livre Trouble dans le genre

Source: Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

“Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.”

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Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex" (1993)

“Perhaps the promise of phallus is always dissatisfying in some way.”

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"The Lesbian Phallus and the Morphological Imaginary" (1993), later published in The Judith Butler Reader (2004) edited by Sarah Salih with Judith Butler

“There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very "expressions" that are said to be its results.”

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"Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity" (1990)

“There was a brief moment after 9/11 when Colin Powell said “we should not rush to satisfy the desire for revenge.” It was a great moment, an extraordinary moment, because what he was actually asking people to do was to stay with a sense of grief, mournfulness, and vulnerability.”

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Interview with Judith Butler. in: The Believer. May 2003

“I am much more open about categories of gender, and my feminism has been about women's safety from violence, increased literacy, decreased poverty and more equality. I was never against the category of men.”

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"As a Jew, I was taught it was ethically imperative to speak up" in Haaretz. February 24, 2010

“Gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original; in fact, it is a kind of imitation that produces the very notion of the original as an effect and consequence of the imitation itself.”

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"Imitation and Gender Insubordination" in Inside/Out (1991) edited by Diana Fuss

“Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.”

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Source: 'Gender is een performance', Gender is a performance, Anouta de Groot, 2017-09-04, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, nl, In 1999 schreef de Amerikaanse filosoof Judith Butler haar bekende werk Gender Trouble. Met dit boek zette zei het begrip gender op de kaart. Butler stelt hierin dat gender niet biologisch vastgelegd is, maar door de maatschappij wordt bepaald en steeds kan veranderen. "Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.", 2022-06-12 https://www.ru.nl/radboudreflects/terugblik/terugblik-2017-0/terugblik-2017/17-09-04-man-vrouw-doe-filosofieworkshop-anya/,

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