Judith Butler has been arguably the most important gender theorist of the past 20 years. This edited volume draws leading international political theorists into dialogue with her political theory.

1. Introduction Terrell Carver and Samuel A. Chambers Part 1: Phenomenology & Epistemology 2. Butler's Phenomenological Existentialism Diana Coole 3. Feminists Know Not What They Do: Judith Butler's Gender Trouble and the Limits of Epistemology Linda M.G. Zerilli Part 2: Feminism & Philosophy 4. 'French Theory' Goes to France: Trouble dans le Genre and 'Materialist' Feminism - A Conversation Manqué Lisa Jane Disch 5. Acclaim for Antigone's Claim Reclaimed (or, Steiner contra Butler) John E. Seery Part 3: Capitalism & Culture 6. Missing Poststructuralism, Missing Foucault: Butler and Fraser on Capitalism and the Regulation of Sexuality Anna Marie Smith 7. Towards a Cultural Politics of Vulnerability: Precarious Lives and Ungrievable Deaths Moya Lloyd Part 4: Ethics & Sovereignty 8. Change of Address: Butler's Ethics at Sovereignty's Deadlock Jodi Dean 9. Sovereignty and Suffering: Towards an Ethics of Grief in a Post-9/11 World David S. Gutterman and Sara L. Rushing Part 5: Law & Rights 10. Butler and Life: Law, Sovereignty, Power Elena Loizidou 11. Rights and the Politics of Performativity Karen Zivi Part 6: Humanity & Vulnerability 12. This Species Which Is Not One: Identity Practices in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Kathy E. Ferguson 13. Vulnerability, Vengeance, and Community: Butler's Political Thought and Eastwood's Mystic River Robert E. Watkins 14. Gender Trouble at Abu Ghraib Timothy Kaufman-Osborn