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Born February 24, 1956 (age 70) • Cleveland • Ohio
Notable Works “Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of ‘Sex’ ” • “Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity” • “Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France” • “The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind”
Subjects Of Study desire • gender identity • gender parody • nonviolence • sex differentiation

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