El género en disputa

The disputed gender, founding work of the so-called queer theory and emblem of gender studies as it is known today, is an indispensable volume to understand current feminist theory. It constitutes a lucid critique of the essentialist idea that gender identities are immutable and find their roots in nature, in the body, or in a normative and obligatory heterosexuality. This interdisciplinary work, which is simultaneously inscribed in philosophy, anthropology, literary theory and psychoanalysis, is indebted to the author's prolonged approach to theoretical feminism, to debates on the socially constructed nature of gender, to psychoanalysis, to studies pioneers on cross-dressing, and also to their active participation in movements defending sexual diversity. Thus, with one foot in the academy and the other in the militancy, supported by her reading of authors such as Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Simone de Beauvoir, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, Monique Wittig and Michel Foucault, Judith Butler offers us an original, controversial and subversive theory, also responsible for more than one dispute.