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June 23, 2016

Think Gender Is a Performance? You Have Judith Butler to Thank For That

In 1990, Judith Butler published a groundbreaking book on queer theory. Today, “in a broad-stroke, vastly simplified version, the understanding of gender that Gender Trouble suggests is not only recognizable; it is pop.”

Molly Fischer New York Jun 2016 15min Permalink