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Gender Studies examines how gender shapes identity, power, culture, and social institutions.
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Masculine Domination is Pierre Bourdieu's book-length study of male domination, presented in its opening pages as an analysis…
Uxoria is a dialogue written by Leon Battista Alberti in Italian during the fifteenth century.
Angela Davis argues that gendered identities are actively formed, maintained, and contested through the spatial arrangements of everyday…
Angela Davis examines the history of pre-school childcare in England from 1939 to 2010, exploring how motherhood, state…
Citizen Subject is a 2016 work by American philosopher and gender studies scholar Judith Butler.
The work appeared in the International Journal of Advanced Engineering, Management and Science (IJAEMS), Vol-5, Issue-8, in August…
This book is a sustained critical study of Margaret Atwood's fiction, examined through the lens of feminist theory…
Butler explores loss as a political category, arguing that grief and mourning shape the self's formation and reveal…
The book engages with questions of how gender functions as a social category and how individuals and collectives…
The book emerges from Butler's sustained engagement with questions of recognition, grievability, and the social conditions that determine…
The book examines the power and significance of public gatherings, asking what it means when people assemble in…
Butler argues that matter itself, including the sexed body, is produced through a process of materialization inseparable from…
The book brings together three prominent left theorists—Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau, and Slavoj Žižek—in a structured exchange of…
The book takes the form of an extended conversation between these two theorists, exploring questions of political subjectivity,…
Published in 2024, the book represents Butler's direct engagement with the ways their theoretical work has been mobilized,…
