Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "sex"
- ISBN-10
- 0415903661
- ISBN-13
- 9780415903660
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- Psychology Press
- Author
- Judith Butler
Description
The author of "Gender Trouble" further develops her distinctive theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most material dimensions of sex and sexuality. Butler examines how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the matter of bodies, sex, and gender.
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