Judith Butler

American feminist gender studies philosopher (born 1956)

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Judith Butler is an American philosopher who studies gender and how it shapes society, arguing that gender is not something we're born with but rather something we perform and create through our actions and choices. Her work matters because it has challenged traditional ways of thinking about identity and influenced conversations across academia, activism, and culture about sex, gender, and what it means to be human.

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Born: 24 February 1956
Works: 164

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Radical Thinkers
Citizen Subject
分かれ道
The Queer Intersectional in contemporary Germany
Desfazendo Gênero

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Cleveland, USA

Judith Butler FBA is an American philosopher and gender theorist whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics and the fields of third-wave feminist, queer and literary theory. She has taught at the University of California, Berkeley since 1993. Butler is best known for her books Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) and Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive…

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The Palestine Exception2026
Le deuxième sexe : Sur les traces de Simone de Beauvoir — Self2025
Looking for Simone — Self2024
Photo Booth — Self2022
Great Minds — Self2021
Southern Sorceresses — Self2020
La entrevista de — Self2019
1968 - The Global Revolt — Self2018
Devenir — Self (voice)2017
Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt — Self - Philosopher2015

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Instance of: human
Given name: Pamela
Family name: Butler
Gender: non-binary
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Cleveland
Occupation: psychoanalyst
Educated at: blue
Employer: European Graduate School
Languages spoken: English language
Award: Fellow of the British Academy
Academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
Field of work: critical sociology
Movement: Post-structuralism
Image: Judith Butler al CCCB 2018 (cropped).jpg
Political ideology: anti-Zionism

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Commons category: Judith Butler
date of birth: 1956-02-24
influenced by: Michel Foucault
name in native language: Judith Pamela Butler
ethnic group: Americans
member of: British Academy
floruit: 2024-00-00
unmarried partner: Wendy Brown
sexual orientation: non-heterosexuality
Academia.edu profile URL: www.academia.edu/People/Judith_Butler

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Encyclopedic overview

Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American feminist, queer philosopher, and gender studies scholar whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, psychoanalysis, and the fields of feminist and queer theory, academic freedom, and literary theory.

Butler has held academic appointments at Wesleyan University, George Washington University, and Johns Hopkins University where they received tenure in 1992 before joining the faculty in the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley in 1993. There they became the Maxine Elliot Professor in 1998, holding faculty appointments in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and the Program in Critical Theory which they cofounded in 2007. They founded the International Consortium of Critical Theory, funded by the Mellon Foundation, in 2015. They also hold the Hannah Arendt Chair at the European Graduate School (EGS).

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