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Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive?

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Judith Butler
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 24
Art Theorist
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University Teacher
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Cleveland
Ohio
Judith P. Butler
Judith Pamela Butler
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