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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... »
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... »
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,... »
Contingency, Hegemony, Universality Three theorists engage in a dialogue on central questions of contemporary philosophy and politics. Their essays range from the Hegelian legacy in contemporar... »
Gender Trouble Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, this book questions the category 'woman' an... »