What to Read After Excitable Speech
Readers who loved Excitable Speech by Judith Butler keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Excitable Speech 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 Excitable Speech
How to Do Things with Words
Disidentifications
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
Limited Inc
The Newly Born Woman
Language and Symbolic Power
Bodies That Matter
Undoing Gender
The Harm in Hate Speech
Permanence and Change
This Sex Which Is Not One
The Straight Mind and Other Essays
Talking from 9 to 5
Assuming a Body
Epistemology of the Closet
Antigone's Claim
Domination and the Arts of Resistance
Of Grammatology
Giving an Account of Oneself
The black Atlantic
Feeling Backward
On the Postcolony
In the Break
State of Exception