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First published in 1990, Gender Trouble makes a groundbreaking case for rejecting an essential female identity as the basis for feminist practice. Using poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, French and American feminism, and linguistics, Butler creates groundbreaking theory of gender identity. 

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