Introduction / Terrell Carver & Samuel A. Chambers -- Butler's phenomenological existentialism / Diana Coole -- Feminists know not what they do : Judith Butler's Gender trouble and the limits of epistemology / Linda M.G. Zerilli -- "French theory" goes to France : trouble dans le genre and "materialist" feminism : a conversation manqué / Lisa Jane Disch -- Acclaim for Antigone's claim reclaimed (or, Steiner contra Butler) / John E. Seery -- Missing poststructuralism, missing Foucault : Butler and Fraser on capitalism and the regulation of sexuality / Anna Marie Smith -- Towards a cultural politics of vulnerability : precarious lives and ungrievable deaths / Moya Lloyd -- Change of address : Butler's ethics at sovereignty's deadlock / Jodi Dean

Sovereignty and suffering : towards an ethics of grief in a post-9/11 world / David S. Gutterman & Sara L. Rushing -- Butler and life : law, sovereignty, power / Elena Loizidou -- Rights and the politics of performativity / Karen Zivi -- This species which is not one : identity practices in Star trek : deep space nine / Kathy E. Ferguson -- Vulnerability, vengeance, and community : Butler's political thought and Eastwood's Mystic river / Robert E. Watkins -- Gender trouble at Abu Ghraib / Timothy Kaufman-Osborn.