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An American philosopher, gender theorist, and prominent researcher in the field of queer theory and radical feminism. A professor of rhetoric and comparative literature and a trailblazing activist in the LGBTQ community. Butler created a revolution by maintaining that gender is a set of repetitive acts affected by cultural identity and language, and that the man/woman binary is neither natural nor necessary, but rather relies on social conventions. Some of Butler’s important works include Gender Trouble and Critically Queer. Butler has had a significant impact on postmodern culture and art, continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, literature, filmmaking, and performance art. Butler is known as a radical thinker and as a sharp critic of Israel and its politics.
