Judith Butler talks gender, performativity, and wanting to be a clown : Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! This week, Judith Butler joins panelists Roy Blount, Jr., Maz Jobrani, and Faith Salie to talk about ...

It would be difficult to overstate the importance of the American philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler, both for intellectuals and for queer communities. There are scholarly books, university ...

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 ...

Performance and performativity have proved to be highly productive concepts for understanding the social worlds of medieval texts in diverse literary, linguistic and historical contexts. Through ...

Performativity as a concept was first developed by the philosopher of language John L. Austin to define the capability of language as a mode of action and not just as a mode of description. It ran ...

This week, Judith Butler joins panelists Roy Blount, Jr., Maz Jobrani, and Faith Salie to talk about gender, performativity, and their dream of... Judith Butler talks gender, performativity, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Judith Butler Miquel Taverna/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA It would be difficult to overstate the importance of the American ...