Ep. 235: Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble" (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
On Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990). Is gender socially constructed, and if so, how?
Butler describes gender not as an essential quality of a person, but as "performed," as habits of acting in certain ways in accordance with customs. Her idea of social construction is so totalizing that even biological sex itself is constructed. With guest Jennifer Hansen.
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| 1:04.1 | You're listening to the partial examine life, a podcast by some folks who at one point |
| 1:07.6 | said on doing philosophy for living, then thought better of it. Our question for episode 235 is |
| 1:12.8 | something like our gender and sex socially constructed, and if so, how? We read portions of gender |
| 1:18.8 | trouble. That meant isn't the subversion of identity by Judith Butler from 1990. For more |
| 1:24.6 | information, please visit partialexamenlife.com. This is March Linton Meyer performing my ex and |
| 1:29.6 | wife, chromosomes, and the key of G in Madison, Wisconsin. This is Seth Paskin prediscursively sitting |
| 1:37.3 | in Austin, Texas. This is Wes Allon just trying to survive in the masculinist economy in Cambridge, |
| 1:44.1 | Massachusetts. This is Dylan Casey having chosen the blue pill to enter my matrix of intelligibility. |
| 1:50.0 | This is Jenny Hatton, either troubled or troubling my gender today. |
| 1:57.3 | Trouble by or troubling my gender. Welcome back, Jennifer. Thank you. We were trying to figure out |
| 2:04.1 | who to have as a guest for this or whether to have a guest. And I volunteer. |
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