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This is episode 235.

Part 3, we are still talking about Judith Butler's gender trouble.

So we want to continue a little by Jenny and Dylan to drop off.

So we're going to do a little more close textual analysis

at the latter portions of gender trouble here.

We also looked at this article,

Sex and Gender in Simone Du Boas,

Second Sex from 1986,

which seemed to make some useful tie-ins between the last two topics.

Where do you guys want to start?

I think we were about to get into identity.

I mean, I know at least we need to do bodily inscriptions, right?

Right. That's mostly what I wanted to talk about.

If that's what you want to do, why don't we just do that?

And then we can pull another stuff.

Yes. The sort of metaphysical issues in terms of an actor behind gender,

is there a disembodied cartesian subject that acts out various gender things?

And I guess in general,

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