Gender is not scary, argues Judith Butler. But right now, it represents the threat of social change
- Written by: Louise Richardson-Self, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy & Gender Studies, University of Tasmania
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...