Although I've enumerated some of the academic traditions and debates that have animated this book, it is not my purpose to offer a full apologia in these brief pages. - 1999 Preface from Gender Trouble by Judith Butler.
An apologia is a statement in which you defend something that you strongly believe in, for example a way of life, a person's behaviour, or a philosophy. The left have seen the work as an apologia for privilege and property. a statement in which you defend an idea or organization that you believe in apologia for (APOLOGY)