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A review by dinah_yukich
Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
4.0
Fantastic summary of the current (2023-ish) world affairs and forces in modern anti-gender politics. Draws heavily from Lacan from a philosophical underpinning, and addresses Evangelical/Catholic roots of anti-gender and the colonial/linguistic aspect of language of discourse // pulls the concept of gender as phantasm throughout which is an excellent way of framing the discourse.
The primary reason I didn’t give 5 stars is that an aim of the text was to develop a framework for opposition to the anti-gender movement and I didn’t feel that Butler did enough in this regard. The general idea of broadening alliances is a valid but is somewhat milquetoast. Of course broadening alliances is required, but doing so also requires a measure of mediation … and I didn’t feel they were concrete enough in this regard. They outlined the common causes but not so much the challenges except in the chapter on gender in translation.
The primary reason I didn’t give 5 stars is that an aim of the text was to develop a framework for opposition to the anti-gender movement and I didn’t feel that Butler did enough in this regard. The general idea of broadening alliances is a valid but is somewhat milquetoast. Of course broadening alliances is required, but doing so also requires a measure of mediation … and I didn’t feel they were concrete enough in this regard. They outlined the common causes but not so much the challenges except in the chapter on gender in translation.