Who's afraid of gender? / Judith Butler.

Author/creator Butler, Judith, 1956- author.
Format Book
EditionFirst edition.
PublicationNew York, NY : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024.
Copyright Date©2024
Description308 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction: Gender ideology and the fear of destruction -- The global scene -- Vatican views -- Contemporary attacks on gender in the United States: Censorship and rights-stripping -- Trump, sex, and the Supreme Court -- TERFs and British matters of sex: How critical is gender-critical feminism? -- What about sex? -- What gender are you? -- Nature/culture: Toward co-construction -- Racial and colonial legacies of gender dimorphism -- Foreign terms, or the disturbance of translation -- Conclusion: The fear of destruction, the struggle to imagine.
Abstract "Inflamed by the rhetoric of public figures, the "anti-gender ideology movement" movement has sought to nullify reproductive justice, undermine protections against sexual and gender violence, and strip trans and queer people of their rights to pursue a life without fear of violence. Here, Judith Butler ... confronts the attacks on "gender" that have become central to right-wing movements today. Who's Afraid of Gender? examines how "gender" has become a phantasm for emerging authoritarian regimes, fascist formations, and transexclusionary feminists. [In this book] Butler illuminates the concrete ways that this phantasm of gender collects and displaces anxieties and fears of destruction, resulting in a movement that demonizes struggles for equality, fuels aggressive nationalism, 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 bold call to refuse the alliance with authoritarian movements and to make a broad coalition with all those who fight against injustice."--Adapted from jacket.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2023040892
ISBN9780374608224 (hardcover)
ISBN0374608229 (hardcover)

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