Judith Butler Who's Afraid of Gender? Paperback Book

An Instant Sunday Times BestsellerA profoundly urgent intervention Naomi KleinFrom 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 groundbreaking philosopher whose work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to rightwing movements today. Global networks have formed antigender 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 antigender 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, Whos Afraid of Gender? is a galvanizing call to make a broad coalition with all those who... | Judith Butler Who's Afraid of Gender? Paperback Book