Who's Afraid of Gender by Judith Butler review: It’s tough going on the front line of the gender wars
In late 2017, I read about an article about an academic with the startling headline, “Judith Butler discusses being burned in an effigy at Brazil protest”. It was my first introduction to the strength of feeling that the field of gender studies — and Butler — would soon come to evoke.
The 68-year-old American philosopher and academic (who prefers to use they/them pronouns) is best known for the idea that gender is performative — in
