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| Author | Judith Butler |
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| Language | English |
| Subjects | Feminism, Philosophy, Queer theory |
| Publisher | Routledge |
Publication date | 1990 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover and paperback) |
| Pages | 272 (UK paperback edition) |
| ISBN | 0-415-38955-0 |
| Preceded by | Subjects of Desire |
| Followed by | Bodies That Matter |
| Part of a series on |
| Feminist philosophy |
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity[1][2] is a book by the post-structuralist gender theorist and philosopher Judith Butler in which the author argues that gender is performative, meaning that it is maintained, created or perpetuated by iterative repetitions when speaking and interacting with each other.