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  1. Oct 19, 2022 · It would be difficult to overstate the importance of the American philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler, both for intellectuals and for queer communities.

  2. Apr 23, 2024 · Judith Butler, American academic whose theories of the performative nature of gender and sex were influential within Francocentric philosophy, cultural theory, queer theory, and some schools of philosophical feminism from the late 20th century. Their best-known book is Gender Trouble (1990).

  3. Mar 8, 2024 · The philosopher on what defines a woman, the scapegoating of trans people — and why it’s OK to stumble over pronouns.

  4. Mar 24, 2024 · “There is a set of strange fantasies about what gender is — how destructive it is, and how frightening it is,” said Judith Butler, whose new book takes on the topic. Credit...

  5. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity is a book by the post-structuralist gender theorist and philosopher Judith Butler in which the author argues that gender is performative, meaning that it is maintained, created or perpetuated by iterative repetitions when speaking and interacting with each other.

  6. Academic Judith Butlers evolving responses to 7 October are critically examined by Cary Nelson. When Judith Butler expressed something approximating grudging horror–if one may characterise her ambivalence that way–at Hamas’s 7 October murder rampage in Israel, in her London Review of Books essay ‘The Compass of Mourning’, dated 13 ...

  7. Feb 9, 2020 · Masha Gessen talks with the celebrity academic Judith Butler about the possibilities of nonviolence, the rise of the anti-“gender ideology” movement, and the militant potential of mourning.

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