A pedestrian crossing decorated with the pattern of the transgender flag on a street in London April 10, 2024. (OSV News photo/Isabel Infantes, Reuters) There is no question that a seismic shift in ...

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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The philosopher popularized new ideas about gender—and has been burned in effigy for it. They talk with David Remnick about “Who’s Afraid of Gender?,” their new book on the backlash. The staff writer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Judith Butler was serving as my dissertation adviser at the University of California in the late 1990s, they did not yet go ...

It is a minor tragedy in the life of a book reviewer when she realizes that agreeing with a book’s conclusions (and even revering its author) is not always sufficient to make the book much good.

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 ...

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 ...