{"product_id":"9780415219754","title":"Judith Butler","description":"Judith Butler's work on gender, sexuality, identity, and the body has proved massively influential across a range of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. It is also notoriously difficult to access. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to Butler's work, plus a critical examination of it and its precursors, both feminist (including Simone de Beauvoir, Monique Wittig, Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray), and non-feminist (including Erving Goffman, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida). Topics covered include: gender as performance and performativity; sociological notions of performance; the materiality of the body and the role of biology; power, identity and social regulation; Butler's shifting relation to psychoanalysis; melancholia and gender identity; performativity and \"race\"; subjectivity, agency and feminist political practice; social change and transformation.","brand":"Gill Jagger","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45771769053502,"sku":"9780415219754","price":2784.68,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9780415219754_69edfa59-1baa-4559-8afe-dd9ff92675fe.jpg?v=1707251925","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9780415219754","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}