What to Read After Gender Trouble
Readers who loved Gender Trouble by Judith Butler keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Gender Trouble is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Gender Trouble
Epistemology of the closet
Sexing the body
The Feminine Mystique
Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Next Wave: New Directions in Womens Studies)
Simians, cyborgs, and women
Feminism without borders
A Room of One's Own
This sex which is not one
Le Deuxième Sexe
Unbearable weight
The straight mind and other essays
The transgender studies reader
Bodies that matter
Feeling Backward
Undoing Gender
Discipline and Punish
Female Masculinity
Disidentifications
Saint Foucault
In a Queer Time and Place
Mythologies
Feminist theory
Black Feminist Thought
Whipping Girl