Marc Barnes and Maria Brandell discuss the continuity of our current transgender moment with the pattern of origin stories found in the ancient myths—and how the Genesis narrative serves as a polemic against the anthropology of primal androgyny.
Illich Part 4: The End of Gender | The Politics of Gender
Illich Part 3: Spime Blocks | The Politics of Gender
Illich Part 2: The Reign of Gendered Worlds | The Politics of Gender
Illich Part 1: Sex, Gender, and Shadow Work | The Politics of Gender
Eastertide and Gender Book Club | The Politics of Gender
Aquinas on Gender Construction? | The Politics of Gender
Thomas doesn't comment on modern gender theory—directly. But in this podcast, Marc Barnes and Maria Brandell explore how Thomas' notion of "human law" (combined with the brilliant insight of Ivan Illych on modern gender) help us grasp how our primordial task to image God as creative "world-builders" manifests the realm of gender.
Inclusive Nihilism: Can Liberalism and Queer Theory Work? | The Politics of Gender
Gender Trouble V: Gender Identity Does Not Exist | The Politics of Gender
Gender Trouble IV: Butler Against Origin Stories | The Politics of Gender
Gender Trouble III: Constructing Reality | The Politics of Gender
Gender is a social construct. And so is sex. And so is everything else. Maria Brandell and Marc Barnes finish the first chapter of Judith Butler's Gender Trouble and try to show the difference between academic postmodernism and the naive identity politics of popular transgender and queer identity construction.