Texts by Judith Butler, 1987

Eddie Yeghiayan

• "Gender, the Family and History." Review of Linda Nicholson's Gender and History: The Limits of Social Theory in the Age of the Family. Praxis International (April 1987), 7(1): 125-130.

• Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France. New York: Columbia University Press, 1987.
  Contents:
  1. Desire, Rhetoric, and Recognition in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit:17-59
  The Ontology of Desire:24-42
  Bodily Paradoxes: Lordship and Bondage:43-59
  2. Historical Desires: The French Reception of Hegel:61-99
  Kojève: Desire and Historical Agency:63-79
  Hyppolite: Desire, Transience, and the Absolute:79-92
  From Hegel to Sartre:92-99
  3. Sartre: The Imaginary Pursuit of Being:101-174
  Image, Emotion, and Desire:101-121
  The Strategies of Pre-reflective Choice: Existential Desire in Being and Nothingness:121-138
  Trouble and Longing: The Circle of Sexual Desire in Being and Nothingness:138-156
  Desire and Recognition in Saint Genetand The Family Idiot:156-174
  4. The Life and Death Struggles of Desire: Hegel and Contemporary French Theory:175-238
  A Questionable Patrilineage: (Post-) Hegelian Themes in Derrida and Foucault:177-186
  Lacan: The Opacity of Desire:186-204
  Deleuze: From Slave Morality to Productive Desire:205-217
  Foucault: Dialectics Unmoored:217-229
  Final Reflections on the 'Overcoming' of Hegel:230-238
  

• "Variations on Sex and Gender: Beauvoir, Wittig, and Foucault." In Seyla Benhabib and Drucilla Cornell, eds., Feminism as Critique: Essays on the Politics of Gender in Late-Capitalist Societies, pp.128-142. Feminist Perspectives. Cambridge: 1987.

  American edition published as Feminism as Critique: On thePolitics of Gender. Feminist Perspectives. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987.
  See "Variations on Sex and Gender: Beauvoir, Wittig, and Foucault" (1986).