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Race and class are rendered distinct analytically only to produce the realization that the analysis of the one cannot proceed without the other. A different dynamic it seems to me is at work in the critique of new sexuality studies.
Judith Butler
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Judith Butler
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 24
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Cleveland
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Judith P. Butler
Judith Pamela Butler
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I must say, I feel the reception of my work is none of my business.
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Let me say one thing to clarify my position. I think we can take distance from norm but I think we are also mired in norm, empĂȘtrĂ©s, I think you say in French. And I think the choices we can make are only in a certain struggle with the norms out of which we're constituted.
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