Gender issues

One of the most talked-about academic works of the last fifty years, Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. In this inspiring book that founded gender theory, Judith Butler presents a scathing critique of the identity principles of the current feminist movement, questioning the very category of "woman."

In Gender Trouble , founder of Queer Theory, Judith Butler, says that there cannot be only one identity: it should be thought of in the plural, not the singular. Or rather, there cannot be women's liberation unless the identity of woman is first subverted.

With this radical formulation, Judith Butler also interrogates the category of heterosexuality, recasting the opposition between sex and gender in new coordinates and along different lines of force, allowing us to delve deeper into questions such as: what does it mean to be a man and what does it mean to be a woman? What makes a man a man and what makes a woman a woman? Questions whose expansion would encompass the multiplicity of sexualities, so visible in contemporary times.

Gender Trouble is Butler's first book published in Brazil. Published in the 1990s in the United States, this provocative and unusually written book contributed decisively to the critical renewal of feminist thought today.