Ep. 235: Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble" (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · Mark Linsenmayer
February 3, 202051m 37sExplicit
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Show Notes
On Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990). Is gender socially constructed, and if so, how?
Butler describes gender not as an essential quality of a person, but as "performed," as habits of acting in certain ways in accordance with customs. Her idea of social construction is so totalizing that even biological sex itself is constructed. With guest Jennifer Hansen.