Episode

Judith Butler Explains the Gender Panic

Podcast: Current Affairs
Published: Jun 17, 2026
Duration seconds: 2444
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Summary

Judith Butler is one of the world's leading scholars and philosophers on issues of gender, sexuality, and the cultural phenomena that surround them. They are the author of the landmark 1990 book Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, and more recently the 2024 follow-up work Who's Afraid of Gender?