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I wonder about economic sanctions, though, since that is a way that states engage in boycotts against one another.
Judith Butler
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Judith Butler
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 24
Art Theorist
Feminist
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University Teacher
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Cleveland
Ohio
Judith P. Butler
Judith Pamela Butler
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