Book HackWho's Afraid of Gender?By Judith Butler
In a Nutshell
Philosopher Judith Butler discusses how the term 'gender' is being weaponized by authoritarian regimes to spread fear, reinforce state control, and limit freedom of thought and self-expression.
Favorite Quote
Those who oppose gender are living with a sense of conviction that something is, in fact, destroying their world, their embodied sense of self in the world, the social structures without which they will not survive.
Judith Butler
Introduction
Gender concerns how we relate to ourselves and others, how we show up in the world, and how much freedom and agency we are given as individuals.
After decades of discussion and questioning by feminist scholars, a narrow understanding of gender has recently become a central concern within right-wing and conservative politics.
Judith Butler is an American philosopher and influential gender studies scholar best known for their 1990 book Gender Trouble.
In Who's Afraid of Gender, Butler revisits the term 'gender' as it appears in contemporary conservative policies and political arguments, which portray it as a threat to the natural order of society.
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