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Review: Who’s Afraid of Gender? – Judith Butler (Allen Lane)
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 world”, writes American feminist
philospher Judith Butler.
Gender-critical feminists are concerned that male predators will be allowed
into women-only spaces. For the Vatican, the traditional family will be ruined
and children are now vulnerable to “ideological colonization”.
And for right-wing politicians and heads of state, (from Liberal senator Alex
Antic, who believes gender dysphoria is a “trend”, to Marjorie Taylor Greene
and Vladimir Putin), gender is a weapon of social destruction.
In short, gender is now “firmly established as an existential threat”.
Butler, author of the iconic
Gender Trouble (1990), pioneered the view that
sex (which is based in the body) and gender (which is cultural) are social
constructs, building on an old feminist view that society crafts the world into
“masculine” and “feminine” categories, assigning appropriate behaviour to each.
Butler’s overarching argument is that “gender” – the overdetermined concept to
which “anti-gender ideologists” object – is really a nightmarish bogeyman, a
“phantasm with destructive powers, one way of collecting and escalating
multitudes of modern panics”."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
