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Title Bodily citations : religion and Judith Butler / edited by Ellen T. Armour and Susan M. St. Ville.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 311 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Gender, theory, and religion
Gender, theory, and religion.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-295) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Judith Butler-in theory / Ellen T. Armour and Susan M. St. Ville -- Textual bodies -- Materializations of virtue : Buddhist discourses on bodies / Susanne Mrozik -- The Garden of Eden and the heterosexual contract / Ken Stone -- The annoying woman : biblical scholarship after Judith Butler / Teresa J. Hornsby -- Embodying identities -- Disturbingly Catholic : thinking the inordinate body / Karen Trimble Alliaume -- Unconforming becomings : the significance of Whitehead's novelty and Butler's subversion for the repetitions of lesbian identity and the expansion of the future / Christina K. Hutchins -- Turning on/to ethics / Claudia Schippert -- Agency, performativity, and the feminist subject / Saba Mahmood -- Theorizing bodies -- "Judith Butler" in my hands / Rebecca Schneider -- Performativity, citationality, ritualization / Amy Hollywood -- Afterword / Judith Butler.
Summary In such works as Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter Judith Butler broke new ground in understanding the construction and performance of identities. While Butler's writings have been crucial and often controversial in the development of feminist and queer theory, Bodily Citations is the first anthology centered on applying her theories to religion. In this collection scholars in anthropology, biblical studies, theology, ethics, and ritual studies use Butler's work to investigate a variety of topics in biblical, Islamic, Buddhist, and Christian traditions. The.
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Subject Butler, Judith, 1956-
Butler, Judith, 1956-
Butler, Judith, 1956-
Religions.
Religions.
Feminist theory.
Feminist theory.
Sex role -- Religious aspects.
Sex role -- Religious aspects.
Gender identity.
Gender identity.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Feminist theory.
Gender roles.
Gender identity.
Added Author Armour, Ellen T., 1959-
St. Ville, Susan M., 1963-
Other Form: Print version: Bodily citations. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2006 0231134061 023113407X (DLC) 2005034516 (OCoLC)62509105
ISBN 0231508646 (electronic book)
9780231508643 (electronic book)
0231134061
9780231134064
023113407X
9780231134071