Book Review: Judith Butler: Sexual Politics,Social Change and the Power of the Performative by Gill Jagger London and New York: Routledge,2008 Reviewed by Amita Nijhawan

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Butler, J. ( 1993) Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of ‘Sex’ . London: Routledge.

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Butler, J. ( 1997b) ‘Merely Cultural’, Social Text 52-3: 265-77.

Butler, J. and G. Spivak ( 2007) Who Sings the Nation State: Language, Politics, Belonging. Fernhill Heath Seagull Books.

Fraser, N. ( 1997) ‘Heterosexism, Misrecognition, and Capitalism: A Response to Judith Butler’, Social Text 52-3: 279-89.

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Jagger, G. and C. Wright (eds) (1999) Changing Family Values. London: Routledge.

Kirby, V. ( 2006) Judith Butler: Live Theory. London : Continuum International.

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Salih, S. ( 2002) Judith Butler. London: Routledge.