Who's afraid of gender?
(2024)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
305.3/BUTLER,J
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024
©2024
©2024
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
308 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780374608224, 0374608229 :, 0374608229, 9780374608224
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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
"A bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the world"--