Texts by Judith Butler, 1990

Eddie Yeghiayan

• "Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice: Comments on Bernasconi, Cornell, Weber." Cardozo Law Review (July-August 1990), 11(5-6): 1715-1718.

  This issue is entitled "Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice."

  "The Force of Fantasy: Feminism, Mapplethorpe, and Discursive Excess." differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies (Summer 1990), 2(2):105-125.

  Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. Thinking Gender. New York & London: Routledge, 1990.
  Contents:
  1 Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire:1-34
  "Women" as the Subject of Feminism:1-6

  1. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire:6-7
  2. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate:7-13
  3. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary, and Beyond:13-16
  4. Identity, Sex, and the Metaphysics of Substance:16-21
  5. Language, Power, and the Strategies of Displacement:25-34

  2 Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix:35-78

  1. Structuralism's Critical Exchange:38-43
  2. Lacan, Riviere, and the Stragies of Masquerade:43-57
  3. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender:57-65
  4. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification: 66-72
  5. Reformulating Prohibition as Power:72-78

  3 Subversive Bodily Acts:79-141

  1. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva:79-93
  2. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity:93-111
  3. Monique Wittig: Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex:111-128
  4. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions:128-141

  Conclusion: From Parody to Politics:142-149

  "Gender Trouble, Feminist Theory, and Psychoanalytic Discourse." In Linda J. Nicholson, ed., Feminism/Postmodernism, pp.324-340. Thinking Gender. New York: Routledge, 1990.

  "Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)." In George Stade,ed., European Writers: The Twentieth Century. Vol. 12, pp. 2589-2614. New York: Scribner, 1990.

  Written in 1987.

  "Lana's 'Imitation': Melodramatic Repetition and the Gender Performative." Genders(Fall 1990), 9: 1-18.

  "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory." In Sue-Ellen Case, ed., Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theatre, pp.270-282. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990.

  See "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory" (1988).

  "The Pleasures of Repetition." In Robert A. Glick and Stanley Bone, eds., Pleasure Beyond the Pleasure Principle, pp.259-275. Foreword by Ethel S. Person. The Role of Affect in Motivation, Development, and Adaptation, Vol. 1. New Haven, CT & London: Yale University Press, 1990.

  Review of Michael S. Roth's Knowing and History: Appropriations of Hegel in Twentieth-Century France. History and Theory (1990), 29(2):248-258.

  Review of Peter Dews' The Logics of Disintegration: Postructuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory. International Studies in Philosophy/Studi internazionali di filosofia (1990), 22(3): 79-82.

  "Variaciones sobre sexo y género: Beauvoir, Wittig y Foucault." In Teoría feminista y teoría crítica. Ensayos sobre la política de género en las sociedades de capitalismo tardío. Valencia: Ediciones Alfons el Magnànim, 1990.

  Translation by Ana Sánchez of "Variations on Sex and Gender: Beauvoir, Wittig and Foucault" (1987).