Judith Butler: Difference between revisions

| pronouns = [[she/her]] or [[they/them]]<ref name="Ferber">{{Cite web |title=Judith Butler on the culture wars, JK Rowling and living in 'anti-intellectual times' |last=Ferber |first=Alona |work=newstatesman.com |date=22 September 2020 |access-date=31 October 2020 |url= https://www.newstatesman.com/international/2020/09/judith-butler-culture-wars-jk-rowling-and-living-anti-intellectual-times}}</ref>

| gender = Nonbinary<ref name="kian">{{Cite web |title=Judith Butler on her Philosophy and Current Events |author=kian |work=Interviews by Kian |date=27 December 2019 |access-date=31 October 2020 |url= https://interviewsbykian.wordpress.com/2019/12/27/judith-butler-on-her-philosophy-and-current-events/}}</ref>

'''Judith Pamela Butler''' is an American philosopher and gender theorist whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave [[Feminism|feminist]], queer theory, and literary theory. Their 1990 book ''Gender Trouble'' introduced the idea of [[Gender expression|performing or "doing" gender]]<ref name="Fischer">{{Cite web |title=Think Gender Is Performance? You Have Judith Butler to Thank for That. |last=Fischer |first=Molly |work=The Cut |date=21 June 2016 |access-date=4 May 2020 |url= https://www.thecut.com/2016/06/judith-butler-c-v-r.html}}</ref> and criticized the [[gender binary]].<ref name="famo_Judi">{{Cite web |title=Judith Butler |author= |work=famousphilosophers.org |date= |access-date=4 May 2020 |url= https://www.famousphilosophers.org/judith-butler/}}</ref>

Butler uses singular they pronouns.<ref>Kathryn Fischer (May 13, 2020). "[https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/queerspiegel/gender-und-grammatik-das-pronomen-ist-frei-vom-koerper-aber-es-ist-nicht-frei-vom-geschlecht/25826376.html Das Pronomen ist frei vom Körper - aber es ist nicht frei vom Geschlecht]". ''Der Tagesspiegel'' (in German). Retrieved September 24, 2020.</ref>

{{quote|Butler's work on gender, sex, sexuality, queerness, [[feminism]], bodies, political speech and ethics has changed the way scholars all over the world think, talk and write about [[identity]], subjectivity, power and politics. It has also changed the lives of countless people whose bodies, genders, sexualities and desires have made them subject to violence, exclusion and oppression.<ref>{{cite news|last=Barney|first=Darin|title=In Defense of Judith Butler|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/darin-barney/in-defense-of-judith-butler-mcgill_b_3346589.html|work=Huffington Post|accessdate=9 October 2013}}</ref>}}

{{quote|If someone asks for recognition as a given gender or wishes to be addressed by a certain [[pronoun]], it is important to honor that request for recognition and change one's language practice.<ref name="kian2019">{{Cite web |title=Judith Butler on her Philosophy and Current Events |author=kian |work=Interviews by Kian |date=27 December 2019 |access-date=19 June 2021 |url= https://interviewsbykian.wordpress.com/2019/12/27/judith-butler-on-her-philosophy-and-current-events/}}</ref>}}

[...]''Gender Trouble' was written about 24 years ago, and at that time I did not think well enough about trans issues. Some trans people thought that in claiming that gender is performative that I was saying that it is all a fiction, and that a person’s felt sense of gender was therefore “unreal.” That was never my intention. I sought to expand our sense of what gender realities could be.<ref name="Williams">{{Cite web |title=Gender Performance: The TransAdvocate interviews Judith Butler |last=Williams |first=Cristan |work=TransAdvocate |date= |access-date=4 May 2020 |url= https://www.transadvocate.com/gender-performance-the-transadvocate-interviews-judith-butler_n_13652.htm}}</ref>}}

{{quote|I am enjoying the world of 'they.' When I wrote ''Gender Trouble'', there was no category for 'non-binary' – but now I don't see how I cannot be in that category.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Judith Butler calls out transphobia as “one of the dominant strains of fascism in our times” |last=Bollinger |first=Alex |work=LGBTQ Nation |date=7 September 2021 |access-date=11 September 2021 |url= https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2021/09/judith-butler-calls-transphobia-one-dominant-strains-fascism-times/}}</ref>}}