Judith Butler

A Call to Rewrite the Scripts in the Gender Drama

Warren J. Blumenfeld | Posted 05.09.2012

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Warren J. Blumenfeld

While Rev. Harris describes "gender distinctions" as God-given, he betrays his own assertion by demanding that parents break their children early of any forms of gender transgression.

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Gender as Performance & Script: Reading the Art of Yvonne Rainer, Cindy Sherman, Sarah Charlesworth & Lorna Simpson After Eve Sedgwick & Judith Butler

G. Roger Denson | Posted 08.09.2011

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G. Roger Denson

Gender and sexuality are becoming ever more mutable for the progressive and cosmopolitan global nomad -- that small but growing breed of iconoclast, be s/he biologically male, female or in between.

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XX Chromosocial: Women Artists Cross The Homosocial Divide

G. Roger Denson | Posted 05.25.2011

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G. Roger Denson

The rise of feminism corresponds roughly with the expansion of the artworld to include women's production. This is a history that began predominantly in impelling women's art as an expression of the identification of women apart from men.

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Post-Structuralist Star Judith Butler Ditches Berkeley For Columbia

Capital New York | Posted 05.25.2011

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The eminent philosopher, literary critic, and political activist Judith Butler is coming to New York. She will join Columbia University's English and ...

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Which Colleges Landed Celebrity Professors This Year?

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russ Feingold, Arlen Spencer, Judith Butler, Celebrity Profs, Celebrity Professors, Richard Ford, Lawrence Summers, Mario Vargas Llosa, Wyclef Jean, Slidepollajax, College News

Those who prescribe to the old adage "those who can't do, teach," will have to think again -- this year, a slew of writers, politicians and even celeb...

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