Judith Butler | |
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![]() Butler in March 2012 | |
Born | Judith Pamela Butler February 24, 1956 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
Education | Bennington College Yale University (BA, MA, PhD) |
Partner | Wendy Brown |
Era | 20th-/21st-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | |
Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
Doctoral advisor | Maurice Natanson |
Main interests | |
Notable ideas | |
Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American philosopher. Butler was born in Ohio. Butler got a PhD in philosophy from Yale University in 1984.[2] They live in Berkeley, California, with their partner Wendy Brown. In 1990, Butler's book Gender Trouble was published by Routledge. It is considered an important work in modern feminism.[3] In the book Butler talks about their theory of gender performativity, which is that gender, along with sex and sexuality, is something you "perform" rather than an expression of human biology. In other politics, they have supported Palestine[4] and the Democratic Party, including Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.[5]
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