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What if gender was not a predetermined reality, but a fluid construct formed by culture, history and individual identity? It’s a question that drives the work of Judith Butler, a gender theorist and distinguished professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
While acknowledging the biological realities of sex, Butler promotes the concept of gender as performative – something that is enacted and shaped by our actions and interactions. This view, while challenging traditional perspectives, plays a defining role in the discourse on queer, trans, and women's rights. Butler encourages a shift in the societal conversation to include diverse gender identities.
This transformation, they believe, allows us to work towards a society where equality, freedom and justice are at the forefront, thus strengthening the foundations of our democratic society.
0:00 What is gender theory?
1:34 Sex and gender: what is the difference?
2:29 Learning from genocide
3:34 Queer theory in the 1970s and 1980s
4:56 Big ideas in the evolution of gender theory
7:06 Gender is “performative”: what it means
9:04 Resistance to trans rights
10:37 Countering the attack on gender
Read the video transcript https://bigthink.com/series/legends/gender-theory/?utm_sourceyoutube&utm_mediumvideo&utm_campaignyoutube_description
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About Judith Butler:
Judith Butler is a post-structuralist philosopher and queer theorist. They are best known for the notion of gender performativity, but their work ranges from literary theory, modern philosophical fiction, feminist and sexual studies, to 19th and 20th century European literature and philosophy, Kafka and loss, mourning and war.
They have received countless awards for their teaching and scholarship, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Fellowship, Yale's Brudner Prize, and an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award.
Their books include /"Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity,/" /"Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex,/" /"Undoing Gender,/" and /"Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable ?/"
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