[lbo-talk] There's no such thing as bad publicity...

[Mike Ballard]

More worrisome, though, for Butler are the reasons why a caricature of
her work has gained such currency. Though she declined to comment on
the recent protest marches, she suggested "the kinds of anxieties
unleashed by the legalization of gay marriage in France strike at the
heart of a national identity that is bound up with quite fixed and
traditional accounts of the family, masculinity, and femininity."
Fundamentally, the fear that propels these protests, Butler said, is
the fear of disorder. Gender theory, she suggested, had fused in the
minds of its opponents with an "absence of rules," and casting doubt
on the biological verities of sexual difference created a void that
could seem to threaten both the family and the nation.

full: http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/03/02/how-you-upset-french-gender-theory/1DzXUKcQxB01Hv6pN96gvJ/story.html

Mike B)

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