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Judith Butler

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American feminist gender studies philosopher (born 1956)

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Judith Butler is an American philosopher who studies gender and how it shapes society, arguing that gender is not something we're born with but rather something we perform and create through our actions and choices. Her work matters because it has challenged traditional ways of thinking about identity and influenced conversations across academia, activism, and culture about sex, gender, and what it means to be human.

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Born
24 February 1956
Works
164

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Judith Butler FBA is an American philosopher and gender theorist whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics and the fields of third-wave feminist, queer and literary theory. She has taught at the University of California, Berkeley since 1993. Butler is best known for her books Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) and Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive…

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  • The Palestine Exception2026
  • Le deuxième sexe : Sur les traces de Simone de Beauvoir — Self2025
  • Looking for Simone — Self2024
  • Photo Booth — Self2022
  • Great Minds — Self2021
  • Southern Sorceresses — Self2020
  • La entrevista de — Self2019
  • 1968 - The Global Revolt — Self2018
  • Devenir — Self (voice)2017
  • Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt — Self - Philosopher2015

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Gender
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Origin
United States
Active from
1956
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There are two Judith Butlers: 1) The first is a contemporary theorist of gender, subjectivty, and sexuality subsequent to Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida. Considered among Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak to be one of the most influential theorists of gender and subjectivity. 2) The second is a band formed in Montreal in the spring of 2007 and only lasted for about a year. Judith Butler features Lisa J. Smith of 'Pony Up <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Judith+Butler">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Quotes

  • “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.”
  • “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.”
  • “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.”
  • “Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible.”
  • “Perhaps the promise of phallus is always dissatisfying in some way.”
  • “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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Encyclopedic overview

Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American feminist, queer philosopher, and gender studies scholar whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, psychoanalysis, and the fields of feminist and queer theory, academic freedom, and literary theory.

Butler has held academic appointments at Wesleyan University, George Washington University, and Johns Hopkins University where they received tenure in 1992 before joining the faculty in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley in 1993. There they became the Maxine Elliot Professor in 1998, holding faculty appointments in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and the Program in Critical Theory which they cofounded in 2007. They founded the International Consortium of Critical Theory, funded by the Mellon Foundation, in 2015. They also hold the Hannah Arendt Chair at the European Graduate School (EGS).

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