Who's Afraid of Gender?

ISBN-13: 9780241595824 / Twarda / 2024 / 160 str.

Judith Butler

Recenzje

Judith Butler's big brain and big heart have consistently made other people's lives more possible by grappling with and exposing how authoritarian ideas work. Here they show how anti-trans and anti-queer rhetoric are on rapid rise from global and domestic Nationalists, the Catholic Church and TERFS. And that these divergent groups all root their attacks in false accusations of harm, when they are the ones holding the power. By answering the question "Who is out to destroy whom?" Butler dissects the distorted claim that expanding gender systems, "hurts" people who identify with the status quo. Butler turns these manipulative arguments on their heads, revealing the trope of perpetrators claiming victimhood as central to anti-trans politics. A useful, helpful, and hopeful book Sarah Schulman

O autorze

Judith Butler is a philosopher and Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. Their books, including Gender Trouble and Bodies That Matter, have been translated into over twenty-five languages.