Problemes de gènere

It all started with Gender trouble, which has become a major work for the feminist movement. With this book Judith Butler, both a brilliant intellectual and militant activist, founded queer studies and paved the way for all thinkers who have subsequently studied gender. Few works of thought have been as read, followed, and debated as this one in the last fifty years. Butler criticizes the essentialist idea that gender identities are immutable and rooted in the body, in nature, or in normative heterosexuality. He claims that concepts such as "masculine" or "feminine" are not biologically fixed but culturally pre-established. Gender, therefore, does not come from a previous reality but is the result of a repeated social influence. Dialogue with authors such as Lacan, Freud, De Beauvoir or Foucault, and incorporating advanced postulates of anthropology, psychology or philosophy, the ideas collected in Gender Problems continue to amaze with their originality and subversive will.