Judith Butler
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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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- 24 February 1956
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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 — Self
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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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