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Susan Stryker's "Changing Gender"
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- LARB Radio Hour
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- Aug 28, 2026
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- 4179
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Summary
Medaya Ocher and Eric Newman speak with Susan Stryker about her new book Changing Gender . Part cultural history, part grammar lesson, and part memoir, Changing Gender confronts not only the long historical slipperiness of gender and identity in U.S. culture, but also the ways in which the very language we use to describe and understand gender becomes a cultural battleground for meaning and identity. Stryker discusses the relatively recent origins of our thinking about "gender," the ways that thinking has been misunderstood and misappropriated for political skirmishes, and the difficulty of pinning down exactly what we're talking about when we talk about gender.