Judith Butler

Judith Butler (born February 24, 1956, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.) is an American academic whose theories of the performative nature of gender and sex have been influential within Francocentric philosophy, cultural theory, queer theory, and some schools of philosophical feminism from the late 20th century. Butler’s father was a dentist and their mother an advocate for fair housing. (Butler’s pronouns are they/them.) After attending Bennington College, they studied philosophy at Yale University, receiving B.A. (1978), M.A....