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Provides a comprehensive introduction to notoriously difficult work of Judith Butler, plus a critical examination of it and its precursors, both feminist (including Simone de Beauvoir), and nonfeminist (including Erving Goffman).

Changing Family Values offers a comprehensive introduction to contemporary debates and new research surrounding the family. It explores how we define traditional family values and how these values are perceived as being underthreat in contemporary society. Ranging across politics, social policy, law and sociology, the contributors focus on the diverse realities of contemporary family life. Issues covered include: * the recent backlash against ...

Provides a comprehensive introduction to Judith Butler's work. This volume covers such topics as: gender as performance and performativity sociological notions of performance the materiality of the body and the role of biology power, identity and social regulation subjectivity, and, agency and feminist political practice.