Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-295) and index.

Introduction -- Judith Butler-in theory / Ellen T. Armour and Susan M. St. Ville -- Textual bodies -- Materializations of virtue : Buddhist discourses on bodies / Susanne Mrozik -- The Garden of Eden and the heterosexual contract / Ken Stone -- The annoying woman : biblical scholarship after Judith Butler / Teresa J. Hornsby -- Embodying identities -- Disturbingly Catholic : thinking the inordinate body / Karen Trimble Alliaume -- Unconforming becomings : the significance of Whitehead's novelty and Butler's subversion for the repetitions of lesbian identity and the expansion of the future / Christina K. Hutchins -- Turning on/to ethics / Claudia Schippert -- Agency, performativity, and the feminist subject / Saba Mahmood -- Theorizing bodies -- "Judith Butler" in my hands / Rebecca Schneider -- Performativity, citationality, ritualization / Amy Hollywood -- Afterword / Judith Butler.

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