What is Judith Butler?
{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2012}} {{Infobox philosopher | name = Judith Butler | image=JudithButler2013.jpg | caption=Butler in March 2012 | birth_name = Judith Pamela Butler | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1956|2|24}} | birth_place = [[Cleveland, Ohio]], U.S. | education = [[Bennington College]]<br>[[Yale University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]], [[Master of Arts|MA]], [[Doctor of Philosophy|PhD]]) | partner = [[Wendy Brown (political theorist)|Wendy Brown]] | era = {{nowrap|[[20th-century philosophy|20th-]]/[[21st-century philosophy]]}} | region = [[Western philosophy]] | school_tradition = {{hlist |[[Continental philosophy]] |[[third-wave feminism]] |[[critical theory]] |[[queer theory]] |[[postmodernism]] |[[post-structuralism]] |[[performative turn]]}} | institutions = [[University of California, Berkeley]] | doctoral_advisor = [[Maurice Natanson]] | main_interests = {{hlist |[[Feminist theory]] |[[political philosophy]] |[[ethics]] |[[psychoanalysis]] |[[phenomenology (philosophy)|phenomenology]] |[[discourse]] |[[embodied cognition|embodiment]] |[[human sexuality|sexuality]] |[[gender theory]] |[[Jewish philosophy]]}} | notable_ideas = {{hlist |[[Gender]] as [[social constructionism|social construction]] |[[gender performativity]]}} | influences = {{hlist |[[Karl Marx]] |[[Michel Foucault]] |[[Louis Althusser]] | [[Theodor Adorno]] |[[J.&nbsp;L. Austin]] |[[Luce Irigaray]] |[[Monique Wittig]] |[[Emmanuel Lévinas]] |[[Jacques Derrida]] |[[Jacques Lacan]] | [[Maurice Merleau-Ponty]] | [[Sigmund Freud]] |[[Gayle Rubin]] |[[Friedrich Nietzsche]] |[[G.&nbsp;W.&nbsp;F. Hegel]] |[[Simone de Beauvoir]]}} |[[Louis Althusser]] | influenced = {{hlist |[[Susan Stryker]] |[[Sandy Stone (artist)|Sandy Stone]] |[[Jasbir Puar]] |[[Andrea Smith (academic)|Andrea Smith]] |[[Pussy Riot]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/arts/music/pussy-riot-was-carefully-calibrated-for-protest.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha28_20120823 |title=Pussy Riot Was Carefully Calibrated for Protest |last=Ryzik |first=Melena |d