Gender trouble : feminism and the subversion of identity / Judith Butler.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire -- "Women" as the Subject of Feminism -- The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire -- Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate -- Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary, and Beyond -- Identity, Sex, and the Metaphysics of Substance -- Language, Power, and the Strategies of Displacement -- Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix -- Structuralism's Critical Exchange -- Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade -- Freud and the Melancholia of Gender -- Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification -- Reformulating Prohibition as Power -- Subversive Bodily Acts -- The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva -- Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity -- Monique Wittig: Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex -- Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions -- Conclusion: From Parody to Politics.