Butler, Judith

Butler, Judith. Excitable Speech A Politics of the Performative. New York and London Routledge, 1997. 

Butler, Judith. 1993. Bodies That Matter On the Discursive Limits of Sex. New York Routledge. 

Smith RG, Cheng K, Schoen WR, Pong S-S, Hickey G, Jacks T, Butler B, Chan WW-S, Chaung L-YP, Judith F, Taylor J, Wyvratt MJ, Fisher MH. Science 1993 260 1640-1643. 

For advice on postmodernism, the author is grateful to the following Berkeley colleagues Alan Dundes (Anthropology), John Searle (Philosophy), Judith Butler (Rhetoric), Robert Post (Law), Margaretta Lovell (Art History), Mark Bevir (Political Science) and David Hollinger (History). 

On language as performative, see J. L. Austin, How to Do Things with Words, ed. J. O. Urmson and Marina Sbisa (Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 1962). Recent work on the effects of words includes Judith Butler, Excitable Speech A Politics of the Performative (New York and London Routledge, 1997). 

Scott, Joan W. Experience. In Feminists Theorize the Political, edited by Joan W. Scott and Judith Butler, 22-40. New York Routledge, 1995. 

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