Person
Judith Butler
Acting · Born 1956-02-24 · Cleveland, USA
Biography
Judith Butler FBA is an American philosopher and gender theorist whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics and the fields of third-wave feminist, queer and literary theory. She has taught at the University of California, Berkeley since 1993. Butler is best known for her books Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) and Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex (1993), in which she challenges conventional notions of gender and develops her theory of gender performativity. Butler has actively supported lesbian and gay rights movements and has spoken out on many contemporary political issues. She is a vocal critic of Zionism, Israeli politics and its effect on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
Known for
Great Minds
Self
La entrevista de
Self
Le deuxième sexe : Sur les traces de Simone de Beauvoir
Self
Tongue Twisters
2011
Looking for Simone
Self
1968 - The Global Revolt
Self
Fake Orgasm
Herself
Judith Butler: Philosophical Encounters of the Third Kind
2006
Devenir
Self (voice)
Examined Life
Self
Filmography
- 2026The Palestine Exception
- 2025Le deuxième sexe : Sur les traces de Simone de BeauvoirSelf
- 2024Looking for SimoneSelf
- 2022Photo BoothSelf
- 2021Great MindsSelf
- 2020Southern SorceressesSelf
- 2019La entrevista deSelf
- 20181968 - The Global RevoltSelf
- 2017DevenirSelf (voice)
- 2015Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah ArendtSelf - Philosopher
- 2011Tongue Twisters
- 2010Fake OrgasmHerself
- 2008Examined LifeSelf
- 2006Judith Butler: Philosophical Encounters of the Third Kind
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