More than 30 years after it was published, the seminal queer theory text still has some things to say. The author and her twin sister as children, not long after Gender Trouble was published. Spring ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to Britannica, Butler’s Gender Trouble was “one of the founding texts of queer theory,” and all of their work continues ...

Today on KPFA Radio’s Women’s Magazine Kate Raphael and Rae Abileah who will talk to Jewish Feminist Queer author, scholar and activist Judith Butler about two topics she has become famous for ...

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Gender has assumed terrifying, phantasmagorical proportions for a diverse range of groups today. It has become an “overdetermined” concept, “absorbing wildly different ideas of what threatens the ...

This week, Judith Butler joins panelists Roy Blount, Jr., Maz Jobrani, and Faith Salie to talk about gender, performativity, and their dream of... Judith Butler talks gender, performativity, and ...

Gender studies pioneer Butler (Gender Trouble) argues in this trenchant polemic that in recent years the “phantasm of gender” has been “scapegoated” by “anti-gender” ideologues who seek to stoke fears ...

Judith Butler, born on Feb. 24, 1956, is an American feminist, queer philosopher and gender studies scholar known for their many books, as well as their feminist and queer theories. Even if you’re not ...