American philosopher and writer Judith Pamela Butler is a professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, and her fields of action range from Feminism to Queer Theory , including Political Philosophy and Ethics.

She is the author or co-author of, among other titles, Gender in Dispute: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) Bodies that matter. The discursive limit of sex (1993) Psychic mechanisms of power (1997) Antigone's cry (2000) Contingency, hegemony, universality (2000) Women and social transformation (2003) Precarious life (2004) and Unshak the gender (2004). 

Butler received the Medalla de Oro del Círculo de Bellas Artes, the highest distinction awarded by this institution, on October 27, 2022. After receiving the award, the activist and thinker gave a lecture entitled Judgment, Freedom, Solidarity: Thinking with Arendt).