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Jan 7, 2025 | 
modernagejournal.com | Judith Butler
Judith Butler could be considered the godmother of transgenderism. Her 1990 book Gender Trouble advocated a socially constructed “performative” view of gender. (Butler claims to be “non-binary” and uses “they/them” pronouns.) Her latest book is her response to conservatives’ victories against the transgender movement in “red states” like Florida and Texas. Who’s Afraid of Gender? is a polemic against the anti–gender ideology movement on the right.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
theinterim.com | Judith Butler
Sarah Stilton, Review:Who’s Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler(Knopf, $37, 320 pages)Judith Butler is a famous, or infamous, feminist and leading influence on gender theory through her earlier works such as Gender Trouble, Undoing Gender, and Bodies that Matter. This year she returns to the topic in Who’s Afraid Gender? which undermines many of her earlier arguments. Three decades ago, she criticized the idea that gender was mutable while also arguing that there were no essential gender identities.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
eurozine.com | Judith Butler |Ferenc Laczó |Claire Potter
Ferenc Laczó, editor at the Review of Democracy (CEU Democracy Institute, Budapest), in conversation with Judith Butler. Ferenc Laczó: Your new book, Who’s Afraid of Gender?, critiques what you call the ‘anti-gender ideology movement’. You argue that this movement has made gender into a site where intimate fears and anxieties gather and become socially organized. There is a phantasm at the very heart of this movement, you underline.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
christiancentury.org | Judith Butler |Rebecca Weiss |Jack Jenkins |Aleja Hertzler- McCain
On April 8, the Vatican released the declaration Dignitas Infinita. The statement outlines “grave violations of human dignity” in the world today: poverty, war, human trafficking, violence against women.
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
quillette.com | Judith Butler |Holly Lawford-Smith |Justo Antonio Triana |Joan Smith
A review of Who’s Afraid of Genderby Judith Butler, 620 pages, Penguin (March 2024). Philosopher Jason Stanley, the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, has endorsed Judith Butler’s latest book as follows:Judith Butler is the most important philosopher working in the United States today, and the one whose legacy is most likely to survive the test of time.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Judith Butler
What to Read Find Your Next Book Spring Fiction Preview Spring Nonfiction Preview April Releases 22 Funny Novels What to Read Find Your Next Book Spring Fiction Preview Spring Nonfiction Preview April Releases 22 Funny Novels Judith Butler's new book, "Who's Afraid of Gender?," tries to turn down the heat on an inflamed argument. WHO'S AFRAID OF GENDER?, by Judith ButlerAs the example of Judith Butler shows, the boons of intellectual celebrity come at a cost.
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Mar 29, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Federico Finchelstein |Walter Isaacson |Judith Butler
An important book about the most significant threat to global democracy. A historian of fascist movements encourages us to use "the f-word" when describing contemporary far-right populist leaders. During his career, Finchelstein, author of A Brief History of Fascist Lies, has focused his research on the tendency of right-wing populism to escalate into full-blown fascism. The author’s concern is both personal and professional.
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Mar 23, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Jennifer Berkshire |Jack Schneider |Judith Butler |Esther Duflo
A useful book for all who believe in American democracy. A history of the nation’s cultural conflicts over public education and a call to action in our current one. “Today’s efforts to root out ‘woke’ indoctrination from schools are also a warmed-over version of a panic we’ve seen before,” write Berkshire and Schneider, co-authors of A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, who draw a line from the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial to the present day.
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Mar 16, 2024 | 
latimes.com | Judith Butler
In the United States, gender has been considered a relatively ordinary term. We are asked to check a box on a form, and most of us do so without giving it too much thought. But some of us don’t like checking the box and think there should be either many more boxes or perhaps none at all. The myriad, continuing debates about gender show that no one approach to defining or understanding it reigns. It’s no longer a mundane box to be checked on official forms.
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Mar 14, 2024 | 
versobooks.com | Judith Butler
This article was originally published by Médiapart on 11 March. My sojourn in France this academic year has been full of interesting twists and turns. First, an event was cancelled by the Mayor of Paris in early December on anti-zionism and antisemitism in which I had hoped to draw a distinction between the two.
