Is there someone I can read instead of Judith Butler to dip my toe into this? I tried listening to an audiobook of Gender Trouble and it just sounded like an academic jerking herself off. I think I get the premise of the discussion she was trying to facilitate, but the excessive wordiness of the prose turned me off.
>>43181370butler isn't really "meant" to be easily digestible to average readers, she was writing for an academic audience which was still deeply bioessentialist and primarily concerned with things like female solidarity.but i recommend bell hooks who is more like a queer theorist communicator if that's what you're looking for
>>43181370Who have you read already?
>>43181370idk about gender stuff but i've been reading Opera and Drama by wagner and holy fuck its so impenetrable, it feels like i need to know 1000 other academics like feurbach and kant's philosophy to understand this musicological not-(directly)-philosophy text
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>>43181513Honest answer?One or two Camille Paglia essays and Helen Joyce's book on transgenderism. So basically -1 books on the subject.
>>43181561Read freud and foucault first to get a basic understanding. Then move to some people like Halperin if you want to get a further grasp on foucault. If you want to understand gender trouble read some introduction to Lacan as the book is dense with Lacian terminology.
