Nobody is happy with the state of gender and the family right now, and you can tell a lot about a person’s politics by where they turn for solutions. Do they look to a mythical past when men were men, ...

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Judith Butler’s new book, “Who’s Afraid of Gender?,” tries to turn down the heat on an inflamed argument. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn ...

Judith Butler, for many years a professor of rhetoric and comparative literature at UC Berkeley, might be among the most influential intellectuals alive today. Even if you have never heard of them ...