Editing Gender Trouble (section)

{{short description|1990 book by Judith Butler}}
{{Infobox book
| name = Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
| image = Gender Trouble, first edition.jpg
| caption = Cover of the first edition
| author = [[Judith Butler]]
| country = United States
| language = English
| subjects = [[Feminism]], [[philosophy]], [[queer theory]]
| publisher = [[Routledge]]
| pub_date = 1990
| media_type = Print (hardcover and paperback)
| pages = 272 (UK paperback edition) <!--First-edition page count preferred-->
| isbn = 0-415-38955-0
| dewey = | congress = | oclc = 
| preceded_by = Subjects of Desire
| followed_by = Bodies That Matter
}}
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'''''Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity'''''{{sfn|Butler|1990}}{{sfn|Butler|2007}} is a 1990 book by the [[post-structural feminism|post-structuralist]] gender theorist and philosopher [[Judith Butler]] in which the author argues that [[gender]] is performative, meaning that it is maintained, created or perpetuated by iterative repetitions when speaking and interacting with each other.