Judith Butler: Who’s Afraid of Gender?
@ Music Box Theatre
3733 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
Opening Tuesday, April 9th, from 7PM - 8PM
Judith Butler: Who’s Afraid of Gender?
Authoritarianism and the targeting of gender
Judith Butler’s groundbreaking work, and their theory of gender performativity, has had a vast influence on contemporary scholarship in feminism and gender studies. In Butler’s latest work, Who’s Afraid of Gender?, they tackle the global rise of right-wing movements that seek to nullify reproductive justice, undermine protections against sexual and gender violence and strip trans and queer people of their rights. Butler draws upon an array of approaches to gender to expose how authoritarian and fascist politics rely on a frightening phantasm of gender. Chicago Humanities welcomes this iconic thought leader for a timely discussion that offers rigorous analysis, hope, freedom and solidarity in confronting the reactionary politics that seek to intensify marginalization and inequality.
Judith Butler is the author of several books including Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex”, The Psychic Life of Power: Theories of Subjection, Excitable Speech, Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly, and The Force of Non-Violence. In addition to numerous academic honors and publications, Butler has published editorials and reviews in The Guardian, The New Statesman, The Nation, Time Magazine, the London Review of Books, and in a wide range of journals, newspapers, radio and podcast programs throughout Europe, Latin America, Central and South Asia, and South Africa. They live in Berkeley.
Masha Gessen is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of eleven books of nonfiction, including Surviving Autocracy and the National Book Award winner The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia. They are a distinguished professor at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York.
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