Review: Margaret Sönser Breen and Warren J. Blumfeld, eds.: Butler Matters: Judith Butler's Impact on Feminist and Queer Studies.

In lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of the review: The title's witty declaration "Butler matters" in combination with Butler's portrait as frontispiece, and the collection's final sentence that confirms, "the lesbian and gay movement needs, among its advocates, scholars like Judith Butler" (204), suggests more dedication than Breen and Blumfeld's collection of essays actually has. Although the majority of the thirteen articles maintains the importance of Butler's thinking for a number of disciplines, among which Feminist and Queer Studies are only the most prominent ones, Vicky Kirby's and Kirsten Campbell's contributions probe into inadequacies and inconsistencies of Butler's theory.