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Is Judith Butler's Gender trouble actually a 'genealogy of gender'?

In the Preface and Chapter 1 of *Gender Trouble* (1990) Butler describes the work as a 'genealogy of gender', but then when she really gets into it in chapter 2, the object of analysis is the predominant psychoanalytic theories of sex and sexuality etc.. Lacan, Freud, etc. I was kind of surprised at how much of this text is just a critique of Lacan and Freud and the fact that they always presume some level of heterosexuality. 

But this isn't really  'genealogy'. If any thing it seems more like a immanent critique  of Freud and Lacan.
gpt
Exactly.

Don't take that label seriously. It is not a genealogy, but someone who is interested in a genealogy of gender, whatever that means, may still find the text useful for generating hypotheses.