Who's Afraid of Gender? - Hardcover

by Judith Butler (Author)Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, Los Angeles Times, ELLE, Cosmopolitan, Kirkus, Literary Hub, Autostraddle, The Millions, Electric Literature, and them. From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the world "This is the most accessible of their books so far, an intervention meant for a wide audience . . . Because Butler is a human rights activist, as well as a theorist, the urgent point conveyed by this book is the same as it is in all their work: why are so many people seemingly happy to give away their power to increasingly authoritarian forces? And why are they so confident that this power will never be used against them?" - Finn McKay, The Guardian "A cogent and deeply thoughtful case against the right’s attempts to limit ideas of gender to male and female, offering philosophical and historical evidence to support a fluid system i