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Gender Trouble
Judith Butler
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Butler's revolutionary "Gender Trouble" shattered conventional thinking by arguing gender is performative, not innate. This 1990 landmark sparked global debates, inspired protest readings outside Hungary's Parliament, and earned Donna Haraway's praise: "an intellectual pleasure and political necessity." What if everything you know about identity is socially constructed?

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Unmasking the Gender Illusion

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What if everything you believe about gender is a carefully maintained cultural fiction? Judith Butler's groundbreaking "Gender Trouble" challenges our most fundamental assumptions about identity. This revolutionary text asks us to consider a startling possibility: that gender isn't something we inherently are but something we continuously do. The binary categories of "man" and "woman" aren't natural facts but elaborate social performances that create the very identities they claim to express. When a doctor announces "it's a girl!" at birth, they aren't simply describing reality-they're initiating a lifelong process of gender creation through repeated acts, gestures, and symbols that will eventually feel like nature itself. Butler's work isn't just academic theory-it's a profound reconsideration of how power shapes our most intimate sense of self. By exposing gender as performative, Butler doesn't diminish its importance but invites us to imagine more liberating possibilities beyond rigid binaries.

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Questioning the Feminist Subject

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The Natural Body Myth

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The Illusion of Inner Gender

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Performing Gender, Creating Reality

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Creating Livable Possibilities

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