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Global networks have formed 'anti-gender ideology movements' dedicated to circulating a fantasy that gender is a dangerous threat to families, local cultures, civilisation – and even 'man' himself. Inflamed by the rhetoric of public figures, this movement has sought to abolish reproductive justice, undermine protections against violence, and strip trans and queer people of their rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut what, exactly, is so disturbing about gender? In this vital, courageous book, Butler carefully examines how 'gender' has become a phantasm for emerging authoritarian regimes, fascist formations and transexclusionary feminists, and the concrete ways in which this phantasm works. Operating in tandem with deceptive accounts of critical race theory and xenophobic panics about migration, the anti-gender movement demonises struggles for equality and leaves millions of people vulnerable to subjugation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn essential intervention into one of the most fraught issues of our moment, \u003ci\u003eWho's Afraid of Gender?\u003c\/i\u003e is a bold call to make a broad coalition with all those who struggle for equality and fight injustice. 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Criticizing notions of unlimited personal liberty and the killing forces of racism, sexism, and classism, this book suggests that the pandemic illuminates the potential of shared vulnerabilities as well as the injustice of pervasive inequalities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExposing and opposing forms of injustice that deny the essential interrelationship of living creatures, Butler argues for a radical social equality and advocates modes of resistance that seek to establish new conditions of livability and a new sense of a shared world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000842567916,"sku":"9780231208284","price":152.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8139543482270.jpg?v=1763309507"},{"product_id":"what-world-is-this-by-judith-butler-9780231208291","title":"What World Is This?","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe pandemic compels us to ask fundamental questions about our place in the world: the many ways humans rely on one another, how we vitally and sometimes fatally breathe the same air, share the surfaces of the earth, and exist in proximity to other porous creatures in order to live in a social world. 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Her own engagements with Edward Said and Mahmoud Darwish form an important point of departure and conclusion for her engagement with some key forms of thought derived in part from Jewish resources, but always in relation to the non-Jew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eButler considers the rights of the dispossessed, the necessity of plural cohabitation, and the dangers of arbitrary state violence, showing how they can be extended to a critique of Zionism, even when that is not their explicit aim. She revisits and affirms Edward Said's late proposals for a one-state solution within the ethos of binationalism. 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Global networks have formed \"anti-gender ideology movements\" that are dedicated to circulating a fantasy that gender is a dangerous, perhaps diabolical, threat to families, local cultures, civilization — and even \"man\" himself. Inflamed by the rhetoric of public figures, this movement has sought to nullify reproductive justice, undermine protections against sexual and gender violence, and strip trans and queer people of their rights to pursue a life without fear of violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe aim of \u003cem\u003eWho's Afraid of Gender?\u003c\/em\u003e is not to offer a new theory of gender but to examine how \"gender\" has become a phantasm for emerging authoritarian regimes, fascist formations, and trans-exclusionary feminists. In their vital, courageous new book, Butler illuminates the concrete ways that this phantasm of \"gender\" collects and displaces anxieties and fears of destruction. Operating in tandem with deceptive accounts of \"critical race theory\" and xenophobic panics about migration, the anti-gender movement demonizes struggles for equality, fuels aggressive nationalism, and leaves millions of people vulnerable to subjugation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn essential intervention into one of the most fraught issues of our moment, \u003cem\u003eWho's Afraid of Gender?\u003c\/em\u003e is a bold call to refuse the alliance with authoritarian movements and to make a broad coalition with all those whose struggle for equality is linked with fighting injustice. 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