"In a new introduction to the 10th-anniversary edition of Gender Trouble--among the two or three most influential books (and by far the mostpopular) in the field of gender studies--Judith Butler explains the complicated critical response to her groundbreaking arguments and the ways er ideas have evolved as a result. Nevertheless, she has resisted the urge o revise what has become a feminist classic (as well as an elegant defense f drag, given Butler's emphasis on the performative nature of gender). The ook was produced, according to Butler, "as part of the cultural life of a collective struggle that has had, and will continue to have, some success in increasing the possibilities for a livable life for those who live, or try to live, on the sexual margins." An attack on the essentialism of French feminist theory and its basis in structuralist anthropology, Gender rouble expands to address the cultural prejudices at play in genetic studies of sex determination, as well as the uses of gender parody, and also provides a critical genealogy of the naturalization of sex."