How long does it take to read Gender Trouble?
Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Gender Trouble by Judith Butler takes about 4 hours 12 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 12 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1989. 229 pages, about 62,975 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 12 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 37 minutes |
The page count is the median across 23 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or indeed of sex or gender, Butler starts by questioning the category 'woman' and continues in this vein with examinations of 'the masculine' and 'the feminine'. Best known however, but also most often misinterpreted, is Butler's concept of gender as a reiterated social performance rather than the expression of a prior reality. Thrilling and provocative, few other academic works have roused passions to the same extent.
Subjects: Feminist theory, Femininity, Sex role, Sex differences (Psychology), Identity (Psychology), Geschlechtsidentität
