Opening Possibilities. An Interview with Judith Butler Authors Patrícia Soley-Beltran Universitat Ramon Llull / Vinculada al grup Cos i Textualitat Beatriz Preciado Université Paris 8 Keywords: biopolitics, feminism, gender, performance, transgender Abstract Interview with Judith Butler which took place in Paris on June, 20th 2006. The interview touches upon several issues: Butler’s contribution to the thinking of gender and the materiality of the body, as well as her views about feminism of difference; the regulation of kinship, sexual difference and reproduction; homosexual marriage and the proliferation of non-normative sexual and kinship practices; her views on U.S. foreign policy in relation to gender, feminism and the normative definition of the human subject; Butler's public role as intellectual and activist; biopolitics and precariousness; autobiographical writing; art performance and performativity; transsexuality and subversion. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2010-07-21 Issue No. 13 (2007): Mujer y silencio. Jeanne Hersch Section Miscellaneous License The Author retains ownership of the copyright in this article, unless the opposite is expressed, and all rights not expressly granted in this agreement, including the nonexclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the article in print or electronic form, and grants, Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat the exclusive rights to print publication of the Article for a period beginning when this Agreement is executed and ending twelve (12) months after the first publicaton of the work in this Journal. After this time, the work will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license, by which the article must be credited to the Author and the Journal be credited as first place of publication. Beginning twelve (12) months after the article´s first publication, the Author is free to enter in seperate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work as published in this journal. The Author is encouraged to post the work online (eg in institutional or subject repositories, or on their website) after the exclusivity period of twelve (12) months has expired, as it can lead to productive exchanges as well as a greater citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
