Ethical Theorist; Judith Butler
An influential female ethical theorist in modern intellectual American society is Judith Butler. Judith is a professor at Maxine Elliot in the Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr.Butler received her Ph.D. from Yale in 1984. In addition, Judith has also published "Gender Trouble" that creates thinking on feminist ideas and is one of the first founding texts of the queer theory, "Queer theory is a brand-new branch of study or theoretical speculation; it has only been named as an area since about 1991. It grew out of gay/lesbian studies, a discipline which itself is very new, existing in any kind of organized form only since about the mid-1980s" (Coloarado.edu). Subsequent publication of "Precarious Life: The Power of Mourning and Violence", address the rising violence that happened post-9/11 America; "Undoing Gender" address the problems and challenges of the changing family form of interracial,......
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