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Celebrity Philosopher Judith Butler Fights to Vindicate Gender Theory

As the public's tolerance for transgender extremism wanes, Butler makes her case to the general reader

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Robert J. Hutchinson
May 04, 2024
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The launch of Berkeley philosophy professor Judith Butler’s much-heralded new book, Who’s Afraid of Gender (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), is an attempt to vindicate what is left of gender theory among the general reading public.

Once called the “queen of queer theorists”, Butler’s incomprehensible academic prose is widely credited, by friend and foe …

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