'Sex' and the problem of the Body: Reconstructing Judith Butler's theory of sex/gender

Body and Society

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 47-75

  Chambers, Samuel A ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agency; Beauvoir; Butler; Foucault; Gender; Sex; The body

Indexed keywords

EID: 39649096717     PISSN: 1357034X     EISSN: 14603632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X07085537     Document Type: Article

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