Reading Judy .. Judith wouldn't like it

[Carrol Cox]

I took it that the addition of "Judy" [in questions addressed to her]
was an effort to dislodge me from the more formal "Judith" and to recall
me to a bodily life that could not be theorized away. There was a
certain exasperation in the delivery of that final diminutive, a certain
patronizing quality which (re)constituted me as an unruly child, one who
needed to be brought to task, restored to that bodily being which is,
after all, considered to be most real, most...

    Judith Butler, *Bodies That Matter* (London: Routledge, 1993), pp.
ix-x.

Carrol