Judith Butler is a professor in the Comparative Literature and Critical Theory department at the University of California, Berkeley, and most recently the author of Who’s Afraid of Gender? The 160 ...

There was a time when outlandish theories about gender were confined to the fringes of social-science faculties. Now such notions—and particularly the idea that sex is mutable—are debated everywhere, ...

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 ...

How did gender become a scary word? The theorist who got us talking about the subject has answers. How did gender become a scary word? The theorist who got us talking about the subject has answers.

While this isn’t a crime – whatever floats your boat – it is a warning: severe boredom ahead. Politically correct critics, many of them women, have been falling over themselves to celebrate Butler’s ...