巴特勒因其性别理论而蜚声学术界,除此之外,她对主体的建构尝试也具有理论和范式意义。其著作有(专著与合著):Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France (New York: Columbia University Press, 1987);Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity(London: Routledge, 1990);Feminists Theorize the Political, eds Judith Butler and Joan W. Scott (London Routeledge, 1992);with Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex (London: Routledge, 1993);Benhabib, Cornell, and Fraser, Feminist contentions(New York:Routledge,1995);The Psychic Life of Power: Theories of Subjection (Stanford University Press, 1997);Excitable Speech: A Politics of Performative (New York and London: Routledge, 1997);Antigone's Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death (Columbia University Press, 2000);Hegemony, Contingency, Universality, with Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj Zizek (London: Verso Press, 2000);Precarious Life: Powers of Violence and Mourning(London: Verso Press, 2004) ;The Judith Butler Reader, eds. Sara Salih and Judith Butler, (Blackwell Publishers, 2004);Undoing Gender (New York and London: Routledge, 2004); Giving an Account of Oneself (New York: Fordham University Press 2005);Who Sings the Nation-State? Language, Politics, Belonging, with Gayatri Spivak (Seagull Books, 2007).著作译本《性别麻烦:女性主义与身份的颠覆》,上海三联书店,2009 《消解性别》,上海三联书店,2009《身体之重:论“性别”的话语界限》,上海三联书店,2011《权力的精神生活》,江苏人民出版社,2009《脆弱不安的生命》,河南大学出版社,2013