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Judith Butler

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Total quotes: 3

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Judith Butler

Birthname

AKA: Judith Butler

Birthday: February 24, 1956

Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Educated At: Yale University

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: University Teacher, Feminist, Journalist, Sociologist, Literary Critic

Total quotes: 3

“Democracy requires a good challenge, and it does not always arrive in soft tones.”

— Judith Butler, Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times”

Tagged: Democracy

“Gender is the mechanism by which notions of masculine and feminine are produced and naturalized, but gender might very well be the apparatus by which such terms are deconstructed and denaturalized. Indeed, it may be that the very apparatus that seeks to install the norm also works to undermine that installation, that the installation is, as it were, definitionally incomplete.”

— Judith Butler, Undoing Gender

Tagged: gender, Structure as a Means of Deconstruction

“By gender freedom, I do not mean we all get to choose our gender. Rather, we get to make a political claim to live freely and without fear of discrimination and violence against the genders that we are. Many people who were assigned “female” at birth never felt at home with that assignment, and those people (including me) tell all of us something important about the constraints of traditional gender norms for many who fall outside its terms.”

— Judith Butler, Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in “anti-intellectual times”

Tagged: Defining Gender

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