Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to the collection / Margaret Sèonser Breen -- "There is a person here" : an interview with Judith Butler / compiled by Warren J. Blumenfeld and Margaret Sèonser Breen, with Susanne Baer ... [et al .] -- Becoming Butlerian : on the discursive limits (and potentials) of Gender trouble / Frederick Roden -- When all that is solid melts into language / Vicki Kirby -- Judith Butler and the images of theory / Mena Mitrano -- The plague of the subject : subjects, politics, and the pow er of psychic life / Kirsten Campbell -- Excitable speech : Judith Butl er, Mae West, and sexual innuendo / Angela Failler -- Past performances : the archaeology of gender as influenced by the work of Judith Butler / Elizabeth M. Perry and Rosemary A. Joyce -- Renaissance body matters : Judith Butler and the sex that is one / Belinda Johnston -- Gender t rouble in the literature classroom : unintelligible genders in The meta morphosis and The well of loneliness / Margaret Sèonser Breen -- Butler 's corporeal politics : matters of politicized abjection / Natalie Wils on -- Strange tempest : agency, poststructuralism, and the shape of fem inist politics to come / Edwina Barvosa-Carter -- Changing signs : the political pragmatism of poststructuralism / Robert Alan Brookey and Dia ne Helene Miller.