AMERICAN POST-STRUCTURALIST PHILOSOPHER, WHO HAS CONTRIBUTED TO THE FIELDS OF FEMINISM, QUEER THEORY, POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, AND ETHICS. PH.D. IN PHILOSOPHY FROM YALE UNIVERSITY IN 1984, IN THE LATE-1980S SHE WAS INVOLVED IN "POST-STRUCTURALIST" EFFORTS WITHIN WESTERN FEMINIST THEORY TO QUESTION THE "PRESUPPOSITIONAL TERMS" OF FEMINISM. GENDER TROUBLE WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1990, SELLING OVER 100,000 COPIES INTERNATIONALLY AND IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. GENDER TROUBLE CRITICALLY DISCUSSES THE WORKS OF SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR, JULIA KRISTEVA, SIGMUND FREUD, JACQUES LACAN, LUCE IRIGARAY, MONIQUE WITTIG, JACQUES DERRIDA, AND, MOST SIGNIFICANTLY, MICHEL FOUCAULT. THE BOOK HAS ALSO ENJOYED WIDESPREAD POPULARITY OUTSIDE OF TRADITIONAL ACADEMIC.
AMERICAN POST-STRUCTURALIST PHILOSOPHER, WHO HAS CONTRIBUTED TO THE FIELDS OF FEMINISM, QUEER THEORY, POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, AND ETHICS. PH.D. IN PHILOSOPHY FROM YALE UNIVERSITY IN 1984, IN THE LATE-1980S SHE WAS INVOLVED IN "POST-STRUCTURALIST" EFFORTS WITHIN WESTERN FEMINIST THEORY TO QUESTION THE "PRESUPPOSITIONAL TERMS" OF FEMINISM. GENDER TROUBLE WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1990, SELLING OVER 100,000 COPIES INTERNATIONALLY AND IN DIFFERENT LANGUAGES. GENDER TROUBLE CRITICALLY DISCUSSES THE WORKS OF SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR, JULIA KRISTEVA, SIGMUND FREUD, JACQUES LACAN, LUCE IRIGARAY, MONIQUE WITTIG, JACQUES DERRIDA, AND, MOST SIGNIFICANTLY, MICHEL FOUCAULT. THE BOOK HAS ALSO ENJOYED WIDESPREAD POPULARITY OUTSIDE OF TRADITIONAL ACADEMIC.
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