Judith Butler - Contestar e Fazer-se Ouvir

This essay by Judith Butler, besides being a tribute to the historiographical innovations of Joan W. Scott, develops a fundamental question: What is the relationship between language and difference? The very vocabulary change brought about by the understanding of gender as the first of all differences has had undeniable epochal resonance. In these terms, historical change occurs when linguistic concepts appear for the first time or are transformed.