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Prefaces

Gender Trouble Preface (1999)-Preface (1990) Summary & Analysis

Chapter 1 Gender Trouble Chapter 1: “Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire” Summary & Analysis

Chapter 2 Gender Trouble Chapter 2: “Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix” Summary & Analysis

Chapter 3 Gender Trouble Chapter 3: “Subversive Bodily Acts-Conclusion: From Parody to Politics” Summary & Analysis

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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity