Editing Gender Trouble (section)

==Reception==
''Gender Trouble'' was reviewed by Shane Phelan in ''[[Journal of Women, Politics & Policy|Women & Politics]]''.{{sfn|Phelan|1992}}  The work has enjoyed widespread popularity outside of traditional academic circles, even inspiring a fanzine, ''Judy!''{{sfn|MacFarquhar|1993}}{{sfn|Butler|1993}}  Butler, in a preface to the second edition of the book, writes that they were surprised by the size of the book's audience and its eventual status as a founding text of queer theory.{{sfn|Butler|2007}}  Anthony Elliott writes that with the publication of ''Gender Trouble'', Butler established themself at the forefront of feminism, women's studies, lesbian and gay studies, and queer theory. According to Elliott, the core idea expounded in ''Gender Trouble'', that "gender is a kind of improvised performance, a form of theatricality that constitutes a sense of identity", came to be seen as "foundational to the project of queer theory and the advancing of dissident sexual practices during the 1990s."{{sfn|Elliott|2002|p=150}}

On November 23, 2018, the playwright [[Jordan Tannahill]] read the entirety of ''Gender Trouble'' outside the [[Hungarian Parliament Building]] in protest of Hungarian Prime Minister [[Viktor Orbán]]'s decision to revoke accreditation and funding for gender studies programs in the country.{{sfn|Bence|2018}}{{sfn|Levente|2018}}