How do institutions influence and shape cognition and action in individuals and organizations, and how are they in turn shaped by them? Various social science disciplines have offered a range of theories and perspectives to provide answers to this question. Within organization studies in recent years, several scholars have developed the institutional logics perspective. An institutional logic is the set of material practices and symbolic systems including assumptions, values, and beliefs by which individuals and organizations provide meaning to their daily activity, organize time and space, and reproduce their lives and experiences. This approach affords significant insights, methodologies, and research tools, to analyze the multiple combinations of factors that may determine cognition, behaviour, and rationalities. In tracing the development of the institutional logics perspective from earlier institutional theory, the book analyzes seminal research, illustrating how and why influential works on institutional theory motivated a distinct new approach to scholarship on institutional logics. The book shows how the institutional logics perspective transforms institutional theory. It presents novel theory, further elaborates the institutional logics perspective, and forges new linkages to key literatures on practice, identity, and social and cognitive psychology. It develops the microfoundations of institutional logics and institutional entrepreneurship, proposing a set of mechanisms that go beyond meta-theory, integrating this work with macro theory on institutional logics into a cross-levels model of cultural heterogeneity. By incorporating current psychological understanding of human behaviour and linking it to sociological perspectives, it aims to provide an encompassing framework for institutional analysis, and to be an essential and accessible reference for scholars and advanced students of organizational behaviour, organization and management theory, business strategy, and cultural sociology.

Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation, communication, and production; the acceleration of social change, reflected in cultural knowledge, social institutions, and personal relationships; and acceleration in the pace of life, which happens despite the expectation that technological change should increase an individual's free time. According to Rosa, both the structural and cultural aspects of our institutions and practices are marked by the "shrinking of the present," a decreasing time period during which expectations based on past experience reliably match the future. When this phenomenon combines with technological acceleration and the increasing pace of life, time seems to flow ever faster, making our relationships to each other and the world fluid and problematic. It is as if we are standing on "slipping slopes," a steep social terrain that is itself in motion and in turn demands faster lives and technology. As Rosa deftly shows, this self-reinforcing feedback loop fundamentally determines the character of modern life.

当代著名作家刘震云获茅奖后的第一部长篇，也是他第一部以女性为主角的小说。直逼现实，书写民苦，使这部小说成为《一句顶一万句》的姊妹篇。
和《一句顶一万句》一样，故事都是写一个戴了绿帽子的人想杀人，其实不过是想在人群中找到能说上话的人，不同的是，这本书中是一个戴绿帽子的女人，从杀人到折腾人，不过是想在人群中纠正一句话。
这个顶了潘金莲冤名的妇女经历了一场荒唐的离婚案后，要证明之前的离婚是假的，更要证明自己不是潘金莲，走上告状路。结果从镇里告到县里、市里，甚至申冤到北京的全国人民代表大会，不但没能把假的说成假的，还把法院庭长、院长、县长乃至市长一举拖下马；以至每到“两会”时她所在的省市县都要上演围追堵截的一幕，竟持续二十年。
刘震云用一个看似荒诞的故事讲述真切的生活常理。他的写作立场使他成为当代文坛少有的可以与时代、人民和国家对话的现实主义作家。

Edwin Hutchins combines his background as an anthropologist and an open ocean racing sailor and navigator in this account of how anthropological methods can be combined with cognitive theory to produce a new reading of cognitive science. His theoretical insights are grounded in an extended analysis of ship navigation - its computational basis, its historical roots, its social organization, and the details of its implementation in actual practice aboard large ships. The result is an unusual interdisciplinary approach to cognition in culturally constituted activities outside the laboratory - "in the wild."
Hutchins examines a set of phenomena that have fallen in the cracks between the established disciplines of psychology and anthropology, bringing to light a new set of relationships between culture and cognition. The standard view is that culture affects the cognition of individuals. Hutchins argues instead that cultural activity systems have cognitive properties of their own that are different from the cognitive properties of the individuals who participate in them. Each action for bringing a large naval vessel into port, for example, is informed by culture: the navigation team can be seen as a cognitive and computational system.
Introducing Navy life and work on the bridge, Hutchins makes a clear distinction between the cognitive properties of an individual and the cognitive properties of a system. In striking contrast to the usual laboratory tasks of research in cognitive science, he applies the principal metaphor of cognitive science - cognition as computation (adopting David Marr's paradigm) - to the navigation task. After comparing modern Western navigation with the method practiced in Micronesia, Hutchins explores the computational and cognitive properties of systems that are larger than an individual. He then turns to an analysis of learning or change in the organization of cognitive systems at several scales.
Hutchins's conclusion illustrates the costs of ignoring the cultural nature of cognition, pointing to the ways in which contemporary cognitive science can be transformed by new meanings and interpretations.
A Bradford Book

本书中，周雪光教授以组织研究的诸种学术问题为导向，系统阐述了当今海外学术界影响至深的诸学术流派，如制度主义学派、交易成本学派、网络分析学派等对若干基本的组织现象的研究和看法，梳理了经济学、社会学和心理学在组织问题上思想交锋的焦点所在，并结合海内外大量组织现象的实例分析，指出了组织社会学研究的努力方向，体现出作者深厚的学术功力和犀利的学术眼光，读来令人茅塞顿开。

本书为我国著名思考型学者秦晖的成名之作，初版于1996年。
作者以七十年前毛泽东与梁漱溟之间一次有关中国社会是否存在阶级对立问题的争论为契机，从分析旧中国“关中模式”入手，在掌握大量社会调查数据的基础上，运用西方社会学科学的分析方法，重新审视封建社会三要素（即自然经济、宗法共同体与依附人格）在中国的社会表征，指出权贵与平民的矛盾是社会主要矛盾；进而对社会构成主体——农民（农民人格、农民心态、农民文化）进行深入研究，纵观中国历史上多次农民起义的成功与失败，深刻分析农民的“双重性”，揭示中国社会长期固守“农业文明”之根源；横向结合苏联集体农庄和美国式农业发展道路，对农民及农民社会进行共时态的逻辑分析，从源头上探寻农业社会现代化的发展道路。
此次再版，尽管经历了十几年的社会变革，但作者对中国社会的深刻分析与认识依旧令人信服：中国是一个农民的国度。中国的现代化进程归根结底还是农民社会的改造过程。这一过程不仅是要变农业人口为城市人口，更重要的是改造农民文化、农民心态与农民人格。让农民“从田园诗式的农业文明中走出来，以发达的自由个性谱写出中国现代化的狂想曲。”

本书以1995年7月美国芝加哥市遭遇的造成700余人非正常死亡的热浪为研究对象，作者结合具体的事件背景，提出一个关键问题：为什么有那么多人在孤独中去世？进一步的相关问题是，人应该如何有尊严活着和死去。作者通过对城市家庭传统、邻里关系、公共政策、新闻报道等社会环境因素的剖析，探讨了造成灾害的社会因素。这一深入并富有解释力的社会剖析，使此个案研究具有典范性的指导意义。

Should western beauty practices, ranging from lipstick to labiaplasty, be included within the United Nations understandings of harmful traditional/cultural practices? By examining the role of common beauty practices in damaging the health of women, creating sexual difference, and enforcing female deference, this book argues that they should. In the 1970s feminists criticized pervasive beauty regimes such as dieting and depilation, but some 'new' feminists argue that beauty practices are no longer oppressive now that women can 'choose' them. However, in the last two decades the brutality of western beauty practices seems to have become much more severe, requiring the breaking of skin, spilling of blood and rearrangement or amputation of body parts. Beauty and Misogyny seeks to make sense of why beauty practices are not only just as persistent, but in many ways more extreme. It examines the pervasive use of makeup, the misogyny of fashion and high-heeled shoes, and looks at the role of pornography in the creation of increasingly popular beauty practices such as breast implants, genital waxing and surgical alteration of the labia. It looks at the cosmetic surgery and body piercing/cutting industries as being forms of self-mutilation by proxy, in which the surgeons and piercers serve as proxies to harm women's bodies, and concludes by considering how a culture of resistance to these practices can be created. This essential work will appeal to students and teachers of feminist psychology, gender studies, cultural studies, and feminist sociology at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and to anyone with an interest in feminism, women and beauty, and women's health.

This is Jurgen Habermas's most concrete historical-sociological book and one of the key contributions to political thought in the postwar period. It will be a revelation to those who have known Habermas only through his theoretical writing to find his later interests in problems of legitimation and communication foreshadowed in this lucid study of the origins, nature, and evolution of public opinion in democratic societies.

时至今日，个人的健康与安乐，日益与其获取药物的情况息息相关。
2003年，全球制药业的销售额达5000亿美元。这个利润率极高的产业，伴随着药物市场的加速发展和全球公共卫生危机的并发，正在将个体的健康与幸福，重写为一种商品。于是，一些迎合生活方式的治疗市场被建立（如抗抑郁剂销量的急剧上升），同时，一些关系到基本生存的急需市场却刻意被忽略（如非洲艾滋病药物市场的发展缓慢）。
本书收录文章来源于哈佛大学第三届里弗斯年度研讨会，集结了医药学领域顶尖的人类学家和药学史家的最新田野工作成果。譬如：在低收入国家中人体试验群体的迅速增长；跨国制药公司在进入日本和阿根廷市场时的教化和监控策略；由于公共卫生服务的萎缩，印度德里贫民社区中形成的复杂的医患关系和网络；以及巴西在对抗艾滋病流行过程，国家、跨国机构和草根组织间的角力与互动，等等。
“健康是每个个体享有的权利，也是国家的责任”，对于药物全球化的民族志研究，不但构建了今日人类学的核心问题，同时，也深深凸显了药物全球流通中出现的“价值鸿沟”：究竟是谁的疾病值得治疗？谁的生命值得拯救？

本书为“复旦百年经典文库”之一种，共收入田汝康先生的《滇缅边地摆夷的宗教信仰》《中国帆船贸易与对外关系史论集》《男权阴影与贞妇烈女：明清时期道德观的比较》3本著作及6篇涉及不同方面的论文。其中《滇缅边地摆夷的宗教信仰》是在《芒市边民的摆》的基础上修订而成的，原书由康奈尔大学出版社出版，此次翻译收入，是其修订本首次以中文面貌呈现；《男权阴影与贞妇烈女：明清时期道德观的比较》原书由荷兰莱顿博睿出版社出版，在海外影响深远，此次也是首次翻译面世。从此文集可以看出田汝康先生广博的研究领域和深厚的历史学、社会学研究功底，然而如今其名却少有人听闻；相信本书的出版可以使读者了解这位复旦杰出学者的非同凡响的学术人生。

A revelatory examination of the most significant demographic shift since the Baby Boom—the sharp increase in the number of people who live alone—that offers surprising insights on the benefits of this epochal change
In 1950, only 22 percent of American adults were single. Today, more than 50 percent of American adults are single, and 31 million—roughly one out of every seven adults—live alone. People who live alone make up 28 percent of all U.S. households, which makes them more common than any other domestic unit, including the nuclear family. In GOING SOLO, renowned sociologist and author Eric Klinenberg proves that these numbers are more than just a passing trend. They are, in fact, evidence of the biggest demographic shift since the Baby Boom: we are learning to go solo, and crafting new ways of living in the process.
Klinenberg explores the dramatic rise of solo living, and examines the seismic impact it’s having on our culture, business, and politics. Though conventional wisdom tells us that living by oneself leads to loneliness and isolation, Klinenberg shows that most solo dwellers are deeply engaged in social and civic life. In fact, compared with their married counterparts, they are more likely to eat out and exercise, go to art and music classes, attend public events and lectures, and volunteer. There’s even evidence that people who live alone enjoy better mental health than unmarried people who live with others and have more environmentally sustainable lifestyles than families, since they favor urban apartments over large suburban homes. Drawing on over three hundred in-depth interviews with men and women of all ages and every class, Klinenberg reaches a startling conclusion: in a world of ubiquitous media and hyperconnectivity, this way of life can help us discover ourselves and appreciate the pleasure of good company.
With eye-opening statistics, original data, and vivid portraits of people who go solo, Klinenberg upends conventional wisdom to deliver the definitive take on how the rise of living alone is transforming the American experience. GOING SOLO is a powerful and necessary assessment of an unprecedented social change.

This profound appraisal of post-9/11 America considers the conditions of heightened vulnerability and aggression that followed from the attack on the US, and US retaliation. Judith Butler critiques the use of violence that has emerged as a response to loss, and argues that the dislocation of first-world privilege offers instead a chance to imagine a world in which that violence might be minimized and in which interdependency becomes acknowledged as the basis for a global political community. Butler considers the means by which some lives become grief-worthy, while others are perceived as undeserving of grief or even incomprehensible as lives. She discusses the political implications of sovereignty in light of the prisoners in Guantánamo Bay. She argues against the anti-intellectual current of contemporary US patriotism and the power of censorship during times of war. Finally, she takes on the question of when and why anti-semitism is leveled as a charge against those who voice criticisms of the Israeli state. She counters that we have a responsibility to speak out against both Israeli injustices and anti-semitism, and argues against the rhetorical use of the charge of anti-semitism to quell public debate.

加拿大国家最高奖——总督文学奖入围作品
在广阔的历史背景上展开，又不乏精彩的细节重现，如同婚姻一样充满魅力
一幅关于爱情、性、誓言、离婚、种族、金钱、婚礼……的历史画卷
从古迄今，婚姻无疑是人类最为重要的关系之一。因此作者说：“我们的社会总是哀叹婚姻是个即将衰亡的制度，但现实情况是我们大部分人都会结婚，还经常再婚。在研究和组织材料的时候，我频频为过去到现在的各种巨大变化感到震惊——甚至也为那些至今没什么改变的事物感到震惊。”
《婚姻史》不仅精彩记述往事，而且试图阐述和分析今日婚姻的状况，作者的雄心是定位和讨论与婚姻发展历程有关的最重要的问题。换言之，《婚姻史》的潜台词，是过去与现在的联系，婚姻曾经是什么样子以及现在成了什么样子。
本书内容宽泛而有针对性，批评尖锐又满怀希望，行文智慧与信息性并重，风格幽默狡黠，带领我们深入观察和思考人类的行为和个体的生活。作者是一位令人愉悦的故事讲述者，新见和趣事散布全书，令人难忘。
作者以热情与好奇，将最公开又最私密的婚姻关系——男男女女之间的故事——生动地展现在字里行间
“婚姻”对人类和每一个个体来说究竟意味着什么？备受称颂的历史学家伊丽莎白•阿伯特将其视为一种法律、习俗和宗教方面的制度，并在爱情和责任、性与忠诚、育儿与同居、经济互相分担、社会认知等方面探讨婚姻的真相，涉及同性结合、父母包办、嫁妆、自婚和童婚、婚姻礼仪等。
配偶双方除了在一起还有什么别的选择？以死亡为终点的婚姻，平均延续时间有多长？穿长裤的丈夫和穿裙子的妻子每天都在过着怎样的生活？男人剥夺女性的投票权、控制属于她们的金钱、获得她们孩子的监护权、不受惩罚地搞外遇，到底有多普遍？家务管理的标准和现实是什么样的？食物如何准备？离婚还很罕见的时候，离婚法是什么样的？富人和穷人的婚姻体验分别是怎样的？解开古老规条的婚姻今天面临哪些问题？人类婚姻的前景到底如何？
对《婚姻史》的深度赞扬
我们真的能在不思考婚姻的本质——社会与性的联合以及传统观点对爱情的定义——的前提下理解独身主义或情人关系吗？伊丽莎白 •阿伯特的新书从社会史学的角度完成了精彩论述人类亲密关系的三部曲。如往常一样，她的行文智慧与信息性并重，风格幽默狡黠，具有帮助我们深入理解自我的价值。任何思想深刻的人——无论已婚、独身还是具有质疑精神——都应该阅读这本书。
——马克•肯威尔，《实在的空想》和《了不起的加拿大人：格伦•古尔德》的作者
无论你视婚姻是地狱还是天堂，是过时的制度还是人生理想，伊丽莎白•阿伯特以探寻的历史笔触向读者展示了既脆弱又有韧性的婚姻制度的发展过程。婚姻的图景并不总是美丽的，但却一直充满魅力。
——朱迪斯•蒂姆森，《家庭事务》的作者
我爱这本书。伊丽莎白•阿伯特是个令人愉快的故事讲述者，她明智地认识到我们只有在理解单身主义变化发展的前提下才能理解婚姻变动的本质。
——贝拉•德帕罗，《精挑细选》的作者
伊丽莎白•阿伯特写就了一部杰作……《婚姻史》内容广泛，反映出社会对不同形式的个人生活的影响，是一本值得众多读者欣赏的著作。
——艾哈迈德•萨伊杜拉，《幸福与其他混乱》的作者
伊丽莎白•阿伯特以其天才的选例能力和特有的智慧与亲和力巧妙地阐述了婚姻的过去与现在，发现了我们的过去与现在之间的惊人相似之处，为帮助未来的婚姻制度提出了建议。《婚姻史》内容宽泛而有针对性，批评尖锐又满怀希望，如同被它赋予生气的婚姻制度一样，品质是有保证的。
——苏珊•奥尔丁，《随笔人生》的作者
引人入胜。伊丽莎白•阿伯特的书包含大量关于婚姻的过去与现在的有趣信息。婚姻绝不仅是永恒不变的浪漫仪式，你应该了解它的过去。浪漫？根本没这回事。
——莫林•詹宁斯，《默多克侦探系列丛书》的作者
如同任何婚姻一样，这本书充满了惊喜。伊丽莎白•阿伯特对束缚我们许多人的症结的关注的是活泼而有智慧的。这是一本必读之书。
——凯瑟琳•邓菲，《摩根泰勒：艰辛英雄》的作者
对伊丽莎白•阿伯特其他作品的赞扬
野心勃勃……她的研究详细全面。她善于关联事实，不仅描述了几个世纪前人们的人生成败，而且让读者了解到他们的日常生活。她令我们……迫切地想要知道更多。
——《哥伦布电讯报》
伊丽莎白 •阿伯特运用其洞察力将人类学与历史学相结合……阿伯特条理明晰、激动人心的著作展现了生活及其当中的无奈……她最打动人、最夺目的成就是从不走寻常路、不会选择说教或者老生常谈的文风。就像所有优秀的史学著作一样，她的书是引导读者了解陌生世界的方向标。
——《卫报》
有趣、迷人，经常引人思考。
——《公报》（蒙特利尔）
野心勃勃且内容广泛。
——《纽约客》
内容丰富、跌宕起伏、引人入胜的历史。
——《环球邮报》

“如果不想陷入以暴易暴的恶性循环，我们就必须回答一个重要的问题：在政治领域，除了带来好战的呼号，悲伤还能为我们带来什么？”在这部激情洋溢、极具个人风格的著作中，巴特勒深刻反思了九一一事件之后的美国社会，批评了美国当局发动长期战争的决策，继而呼吁人们深入认识哀悼与暴力的力 量，理解它们如何促成团结并鼓舞人们追求全球正义。显然，巴特勒一直致力于激发、探索各类“麻烦”，而这也正是其学术志趣所在：“由心理世界出发探索公共生活，鼓舞人们懂得团结、认识痛苦。”诚如荷米·巴巴所言，正是这些因素使我们成为自由的主体。
——“一言以蔽之，朱迪斯·巴特勒是当代极为深刻、极富胆识、极具影响的思想家。”（J. M. Bernstein）
——“显然作者一直致力于激发并探索学术与政治领域的‘麻烦’。” （Bookforum）
——“力作，闪耀着深思熟虑的光芒。”（Brooklyn Rail）
——“尤为关注时事、平实易读的巴特勒著作。”（Women’s Review of Books）
——“独具勇气与抱负的力作：由心理世界出发探索公共生活，鼓舞人们懂得团结、认识痛苦——正是这些因素使我们成为自由的主体。”（Homi K. Bhabha）

Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance techniques criminalize entire blocks, and transform the very associations that should stabilize young lives—family, relationships, jobs—into liabilities, as the police use such relationships to track down suspects, demand information, and threaten consequences.
Alice Goffman spent six years living in one such neighborhood in Philadelphia, and her close observations and often harrowing stories reveal the pernicious effects of this pervasive policing. Goffman introduces us to an unforgettable cast of young African American men who are caught up in this web of warrants and surveillance—some of them small-time drug dealers, others just ordinary guys dealing with limited choices. All find the web of presumed criminality, built as it is on the very associations and friendships that make up a life, nearly impossible to escape. We watch as the pleasures of summer-evening stoop-sitting are shattered by the arrival of a carful of cops looking to serve a warrant; we watch—and can’t help but be shocked—as teenagers teach their younger siblings and cousins how to run from the police (and, crucially, to keep away from friends and family so they can stay hidden); and we see, over and over, the relentless toll that the presumption of criminality takes on families—and futures.
While not denying the problems of the drug trade, and the violence that often accompanies it, through her gripping accounts of daily life in the forgotten neighborhoods of America's cities, Goffman makes it impossible for us to ignore the very real human costs of our failed response—the blighting of entire neighborhoods, and the needless sacrifice of whole generations.

我想把这个研究报告当作一种手册，详尽叙述一种社会学观点。社会生活，特别是在建筑物或房舍的有形界限内有组织的社会生活，可以根据这种社会学观点来研究。我将描述一组特征，它们共同构成一种框架，这一框架能运用于任何具体的社会设施，无论是家庭设施、工业设施还是商业设施。本报告所使用的观点是戏剧表演的观点，其原理从舞台演出艺术原理引申而来。我将讨论个体在普通工作情境中向他人呈现他自己和他的活动的方式，他引导和控制他人对他形成的印象的方式，以及他在他人面前维持表演时可能会做或不会做的各种事情。

"Tichenor provides another slam dunk against a simple, purely materialist explanation for male privilege in marriage. She shows us that even though money matters, women need an ideology of equality to draw upon to negotiate fairness in marriage."-Barbara Risman, co-chair, Council on Contemporary Families "Tichenor's research sheds light on the inner workings of families and helps us to clearly see the power of gender ideology and to understand how and why women's higher earnings can be a liability rather than a resource."-Beth Anne Shelton, professor of sociology, University of Texas at Arlington For nearly two decades the wage gap between men and women has remained virtually unchanged. Women continue to earn, on average, 80 cents for every dollar that men earn. Yet despite persistent discrimination in wages, studies are also beginning to show that a growing number of women are out-earning their husbands. Nationwide, nearly one-third of working women are the chief breadwinners in their families. The trend is particularly pronounced among the demographic of highly educated women. Does this increase in earnings, however, equate to a shift in power dynamics between husbands and wives? In Earning More and Getting Less, sociologist Veronica Jaris Tichenor shows how, historically, men have derived a great deal of power over financial and household decisions by bringing home all (or most) of the family's income. Yet, financial superiority has not been a similar source of power for women. Tichenor demonstrates how wives, instead of using their substantial incomes to negotiate more egalitarian relationships, enable their husbands to perpetuate male dominance within the family. Weaving personalaccounts, in-depth interviews, and compelling narrative, this important study reveals disturbing evidence that the conventional power relations defined by gender are powerful enough to undermine hierarchies defined by money. Earning More and Getting Less is essential reading in sociology, psychology, and family and gender studies. Veronica Jaris Tichenor is an assistant professor in the department of sociology at the State University of New York--Institute of Technology.

作者是美国著名的中共党史研究专家，本书是其成名代表作，体现了西方马克思主义的典型分析思路和论证风格。
作者以雄厚的马克思主义的理论功力，试图全方位地恢复被扭曲的马克思著作中所谓“乌托邦主义”的深刻内涵。他认为，如果失去了以追求未知世界为特征的“乌托邦主义”，那么，实际上就意味着人类减低或放弃自身的创造能力；之所以说毛泽东是一位马克思主义者，是由于他充分保持了“乌托邦主义”的冲动，同时又根据中国国情，把马克思主义与“民众主义”有机地结合起来，形成了独具特色的毛泽东思想理论体系。
本书根据威斯康星大学出版社1982年版翻译。
如果说毛泽东主义没有在中国创造出一个真正的社会主义，那么它确实造成了一个持久动荡的革命形势，为达到(或至少是追求)马克思主义的社会主义目标提供了可能性，如果马克思要改变世界而不是简单地解释世界的指令是衡量一个革命的马克思主义者的标准的话，那么，与列宁主义者相比，毛泽东最后或许可以被判认是一个更好的马克思主义者。……假如毛泽东的非列宁主义的(和非马克思主义的)民粹主义思想，最终会以某种方式来推进中国对马克思主义预言的乌托邦社会目标进行探索的话，这可能是一切悖论中最为奇怪的一个。
——莫里斯·迈斯纳 （Maurice Meisner）
假如毛泽东的非列宁主义的《和非马克思主义的》民粹主义思想，最终会以某种方式来推进中国对马克思主义预言的乌托社会目标进行探索的话，那么，这可能是一切悖论中最为奇怪的一个。
——莫里斯·迈斯纳

Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas that would go on to take life as "performativity theory," as well as some of the first articulations of the possibility for subversive gender practices, and she writes in her preface to the 10th anniversary edition released in 1999 that one point of Gender Trouble was "not to prescribe a new gendered way of life [...] but to open up the field of possibility for gender [...]" Widely taught, and widely debated, Gender Trouble continues to offer a powerful critique of heteronormativity and of the function of gender in the modern world.