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Who's Afraid of Gender?
Judith Butler
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Hardcover.
An Instant Sunday Times Bestseller
One of the most anticipated books of 2024 according to The Times, Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, The Independent, The Scotsman, Time and more
Shouldn't we know what we're arguing about?
From one of the most influential thinkers of our time, an enlightening, essential account of how a fear of gender is fuelling reactionary politics around the world
Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to right-wing movements today. ... Read moreGlobal networks have formed ‘anti-gender ideology movements’ dedicated to circulating a fantasy that gender is a dangerous threat to families, local cultures, civilization – and even ‘man’ himself. Inflamed by the rhetoric of public figures, this movement has sought to abolish reproductive justice, undermine protections against violence, and strip trans and queer people of their rights.
But what, exactly, is so disturbing about gender? In this vital, courageous book, Butler carefully examines how ‘gender’ has become a phantasm for emerging authoritarian regimes, fascist formations and transexclusionary feminists, and the concrete ways in which this phantasm works. Operating in tandem with deceptive accounts of critical race theory and xenophobic panics about migration, the anti-gender movement demonizes struggles for equality and leaves millions of people vulnerable to subjugation.
An essential intervention into one of the most fraught issues of our moment, Who's Afraid of Gender? is a galvanizing call to make a broad coalition with all those who struggle for equality and fight injustice. Imagining new possibilities for freedom and solidarity, Butler offers us an essentially hopeful work that is both timely and timeless.
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About Judith Butler
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.
Reviews for Who's Afraid of Gender?
An argument for how a fear of gender is fuelling reactionary politics around the world from one of the leading authorities on the subject
Financial Times, What to Read in 2024
One of our foremost thinkers returns with an essential polemic on gender, an urgent frontline of the culture wars... Who’s Afraid of Gender? calls for gender expression ... Read moreto be recognized as a basic human right, and for radical solidarity across our differences. With masterful analysis of where we’ve been and an inspiring vision for where we must go next, this book resounds like an impassioned depth charge
Esquire, Best Books of 2024
Timely… urgent… Butler’s work contributes to a long and rich history… they draw attention to the ways that the issue of gender can bring people together instead of driving them apart
Vicky Spratt
iNews
Compelling… it is refreshing to see such a tribal issue interrogated with thoughtful research, as opposed to vicious fearmongering
Emma Loffhagen
Evening Standard
An appeal for gender diversity… this is the most accessible of Judith Butler’s books so far, an intervention meant for a wide audience… urgent
Finn Mackay
Guardian
Both a clarifying exploration of how we got here and a clarion call for different, less fearful, less cramped ways of thinking about the world. With their signature critical focus on what we think of as ‘natural’ and ‘artificial’, Butler pins down the history behind the contemporary cultural battle over gender
Eli Cugini
Dazed
This book is Judith Butler’s response to the demonisation and politicisation of gender theory… Across the globe, Butler claims, fascist passions are being stirred… Whatever political cause is being served by these passions, it is certainly not freedom… in order to have necessarily difficult debates about the right to bodily autonomy we need to identify what is a real threat to freedoms and what isn’t
Lyndsey Stonebridge
New Statesman
One of America’s foremost theorists and philosophers, known for their influential work in gender studies, queer theory and third-wave feminism, has returned with an investigation into why gender has become one of the fraught issues of the moment
iNews, Best New Books, March 2024
A vital read by one of the greatest living third-wave feminist philosophers, Judith Butler navigates the tumultuous realm of gender identity in order to reveal just how straightforward it really is. Butler questions what it is society finds so disturbing about gender, tracing the history of gender politics through their invaluable theoretical lens
Evening Standard
When I first began reading Who's Afraid of Gender, I was at the gym. A bro walked past, fingers clicking, nodding. I like this! they said. Reading during the break! I nodded back. Yeah, bro. And when I returned to Butler, everything I knew — or thought I knew — went on breaking
Declan Fry
ABC News
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