Butler is to deliver a series of lectures for ‘La Normale des idées’. A leading figure in postmodern and postcolonial thought, in a lecture in Paris following the attacks of 7 October he had described ...

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 ...

There was a time when outlandish theories about gender were confined to the fringes of social-science faculties. Now such notions—and particularly the idea that sex is mutable—are debated everywhere, ...

Judith Butler, a professor of comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, passed along a kindhearted New Year’s greeting to readers of the Hankyoreh. “I would counsel [readers] ...

Nonbinary queer theorist Judith Butler warned last Friday that the world is “witnessing the restoration of patriarchy, nationalism, racism, and capitalist individualism” as well as right-wing ...

Judith Butler’s status in the world of gender studies is nothing short of legendary. If philosophy can be considered a series of footnotes to Plato, gender studies is a series of footnotes to Butler.

Judith Butler's argument that "gender is performative" and the currently common explanation that "people have an inherent gender identity" are often spoken of as being part of the same trend.However, ...

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 ...

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.

Sign up to receive our twice-weekly News & Politics newsletter. Long before gender theory became a principal target of the right, it existed principally in academic ...

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 ...