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Welcome to Beautiful Losers!
This week we talk with Professor Judith Roof about her book What Gender Is, What Gender Does (2016). Judith has been at the vanguard of feminism, gender, sexuality, and theory since her first book A Lure of Knowledge (1993), but Judith’s history with feminism and theory begins during her time as a student of The Ohio State University in the 1970s.
Judith brings a first-person, historical perspective to contemporary discussions about gender and identity. While her books work within a specific tradition of poststructuralist, psychoanalytic feminism, she adds to that body of work an innovative, feminist approach to history, law, biology, genetics, quantum physics, and aesthetics. Her landmark study The Poetics of DNA offers one of the most important critiques of science and society in the 20th century.
We invited Judith onto the show to discuss three questions: 1) What is the sex/gender distinction? 2) Why is it so important in the history of feminist identity politics and what does it mean that it has collapsed? And what is identity anyway?
These questions opened up into a rich discussion that covered the contemporary intellectual trajectories of feminism, psychoanalysis, and academically informed political movements.
Although neither of us have formally engaged with questions of gender in our own scholarly work, Judith’s rigorous yet playful and inventive approach to scholarly inquiry impacted our intellectual projects and preoccupations for the better. It is no small thing to say that we would not be the critical thinkers we are today without the mentorship and friendship of Judith Roof.
Sometimes we like to go long in these introductions in order to frame out specific arguments or ideas. For this episode, we simply encourage you to listen and enjoy a discussion with one of our favorite people.
Stay Beautiful, Losers!
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit beautifullosers.substack.com
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By Seth and AlexWelcome to Beautiful Losers!
This week we talk with Professor Judith Roof about her book What Gender Is, What Gender Does (2016). Judith has been at the vanguard of feminism, gender, sexuality, and theory since her first book A Lure of Knowledge (1993), but Judith’s history with feminism and theory begins during her time as a student of The Ohio State University in the 1970s.
Judith brings a first-person, historical perspective to contemporary discussions about gender and identity. While her books work within a specific tradition of poststructuralist, psychoanalytic feminism, she adds to that body of work an innovative, feminist approach to history, law, biology, genetics, quantum physics, and aesthetics. Her landmark study The Poetics of DNA offers one of the most important critiques of science and society in the 20th century.
We invited Judith onto the show to discuss three questions: 1) What is the sex/gender distinction? 2) Why is it so important in the history of feminist identity politics and what does it mean that it has collapsed? And what is identity anyway?
These questions opened up into a rich discussion that covered the contemporary intellectual trajectories of feminism, psychoanalysis, and academically informed political movements.
Although neither of us have formally engaged with questions of gender in our own scholarly work, Judith’s rigorous yet playful and inventive approach to scholarly inquiry impacted our intellectual projects and preoccupations for the better. It is no small thing to say that we would not be the critical thinkers we are today without the mentorship and friendship of Judith Roof.
Sometimes we like to go long in these introductions in order to frame out specific arguments or ideas. For this episode, we simply encourage you to listen and enjoy a discussion with one of our favorite people.
Stay Beautiful, Losers!
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit beautifullosers.substack.com