Precarious Life
One of America's leading feminist voices examines the world of violence and terror, and asks why some lives are more valued than others. Through five essays,... »

Contingencia, Hegemonia, Universalidad. Dialogos Contemporaneos En La Izquierda
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Antigone's Claim
This work argues that Antigone, the renowned insurgent from Sophocles's Oedipus and feminist icon, represents a form of sexual and feminist legacy that is fr... »

Gender Trouble
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Excitable Speech
Addresses speech as a conduct which has become subject to political debate and regulation. The text invesigates hate speech regulation, anti-pornography argu... »

Antigone's Claim
Kinship Between Life and Death »

Bodies That Matter
Develops Butler's theory of gender, offering an original reformulation of the materiality of bodies and examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony form... »

Excitable Speech
A Politics of the Performative »

Subjects Of Desire
This work charts the trajectory of desire and its genesis from Hegel's formulation in Phenomenology of Spirit through its appropriation by Kojeve, Hyppolite,... »

The Psychic Life Of Power
The Psychic Life of Power »