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Jul 28

Resources and References for Teaching Butler’s Who’s Afraid of Gender?

In the Spring of 2025, I taught Judith Butler’s Who’s Afraid of Gender? As I was teaching it, I compiled links to news articles as well as political and ecclesiastical documents for us to use in considering Butler’s case that gender functions as a phantasm of all of our fears and anxieties regarding climate crisis, the breakdown of the nation-state, the exposure of capitalism’s project of alienation. I share this list in case others would find it useful. There are many more references in the notes, but I think these are the highlights.

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  I'm Chair and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana. I work on ancient Greek--mainly Plato and Aristotle--and contemporary European philosophy inflected by social and political concerns. I'm particularly interested in the concept of nature and how historically nature, understood in relation to its apparent opposite of reason, nature, and artifice, has led to conceptions of community that require a founding exclusion. My first book argues that Aristotle's Politicsdraws on a conception of nature that is not opposed to these things and thus not exclusive. My second book considers Aristotle's conception of nature in his account of generation to show the ways that form and matter seem interdependent in the model of a Möbius strip.

  I am serious about running. I care about justice, feminism, opposing racism and resisting neoliberalism. I think Socrates was on to something when he suggested thinking was a practice of living. I teach students to think--and to live. I delight in the pleasures of doing the difficult thing.

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