Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, this book questions the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine'. It considers gender as a reiterated social performance rather than the expression of a prior reality.

Gyorgy Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. Soul and Form was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of linguistic expressivity and literary style in the works of Plato, Kierkegaard, Novalis, Sterne, and others. By isolating the formal techniques these thinkers ..

Taking the controversial Danish cartoons of Mohammad as a point of departure, this title inquires into the evaluative frameworks at stake in understanding the conflicts between blasphemy and free speech, between religious taboos and freedoms of thought and expression, and between secular and religious world views.

One of America's leading feminist voices examines the world of violence and terror, and asks why some lives are more valued than others. Through five essays, this book responds to various US policies to wage perpetual war, and calls for an understanding of how mourning and violence might instead inspire solidarity and a quest for global justice.

Undoing Gender addresses the regulation of sexuality and gender that takes place in psychology, aesthetics, and social policy.

A collection of writings that span the author's career and trace her intellectual history.

From the 1970s to the early-1990s, the discourse surrounding aesthetics disappeared from the study of art history, theory and cultural studies. Claims for the aesthetic value of art-works were thought of as elitist and politically regressive. This work considers this aesthetics, demonstrating its cross-disciplinary relevance.

Judith Butler, author of influential books such as Gender Trouble , has built her international reputation as a theorist of power, gender, sexuality and identity. This book presents a collection of writings that span her impressive career and trace her intellectual history.

An exploration of the wars, looking at violence, gender and different forms of resistance. It details the media's portrayal of state violence, a process integral to the way in which the West wages modern war. It calls for a reconceptualization of the Left, one united in opposition and resistance to the illegitimate effects of state violence.

Gyorgy Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. Soul and Form was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of linguistic expressivity and literary style in the works of Plato, Kierkegaard, Novalis, Sterne, and others. By isolating the formal techniques these thinkers ..

The author argues contemporary culture is in an age of epidemic ; AIDS has provoked discussion of the disease but also seen a growth in sites of erotic danger. She traces the effects of epidemic on the intensification and augmentation of regulatory mechanisms for the control of sexuality.