Judith Butler Bodies That Matter Summary

Bodies That Matter (1993) is a central work of the US feminist and philosopher Judith Butler. It is considered as a development of her theses given in Gender Trouble (1990) which is considered as a rejection of the divisive perception of the anatomical sex and the given gender identities.

3. "What will, I hope, become clear in what follows is that the regulatory norms of "sex" work in a performative fashion to constitute the materiality of bodies and, more specifically, to materialize the body's sex, to materialize sexual difference in the service of the consolidation of the heterosexual imperative." (Butler, 1993).

Gender studies and queer theory explore issues of sexuality, power, and marginalized populations in literature and culture. Much of the work in gender studies and queer theory, while
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In Bodies that matter Butler responds to the criticism that came after her 1990 published book Gender Trouble since it brought a lot of controversy. The critics accused her using a construct in which the sexual identity of a subject is chosen freely by oneself as it serves like some kind of a wardrobe, and that she discards the materiality of biological identities in which she disembody the woman subject and puts plain text instead as the foundation of the