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Judith Butler
American philosopher
Quick Facts
- In full:
- Judith Pamela Butler
- Subjects Of Study:
- desire
- gender identity
- gender parody
- nonviolence
- sex differentiation
Top Questions
Where was Judith Butler educated?
Where was Judith Butler educated?
Where did Judith Butler work?
Where did Judith Butler work?
What did Judith Butler write?
What did Judith Butler write?
Why is Judith Butler important?
Why is Judith Butler important?
Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.) is an American academic whose theories of the performative nature of gender and sex have been influential within Francocentric philosophy, cultural theory, queer theory, and some schools of philosophical feminism from the late 20th century. Butler’s father was a dentist and their mother an advocate for fair housing. (Butler’s pronouns are they/them.) After attending Bennington College, they studied philosophy at Yale University, receiving B.A. (1978), M.A. (1982), and Ph.D. (1984) degrees. They taught at Wesleyan University, George Washington University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of California, Berkeley, where they were ...(100 of 901 words)