that they were surprised by the size of the book's audience and its eventual status as a founding text of queer theory. Anthony Elliott writes that with the publication of Gender Trouble, Butler established themself at the forefront of feminism, women's studies, lesbian and gay studies, and queer theory. According to Elliott, the core idea expounded in Gender Trouble, that "gender is a kind of improvised performance, a form of theatricality that constitutes a sense of identity", came to be seen as "foundational to the project of queer theory and the advancing of dissident sexual practices during the 1990s." On November 23, 2018, the playwright Jordan Tannahill read the entirety of Gender Trouble outside the Hungarian Parliament Building in protest of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's decision to revoke accreditation and funding for gender studies programs in the country. See also Feminist philosophy Poststructuralism Third-wave feminism Undoing Gender Notes References Further reading Judith Butler: Live Theory by Vicki Kirby 1990s LGBT literature 1990 non-fiction books American non-fiction books Books by Judith Butler English-language books Feminist books Gender studies books Intersex in non-fiction LGBT literature in the United States LGBT non-fiction books Queer theory Postmodern feminism Routledge books