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Who is afraid of gender?
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In some sense, all of us are.
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If we think of gender as a set of norms that communicate expectations about how we should emerge in the world,
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what bodily form we should take, and how we are to comport ourselves,
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then there is good reason to worry that one will fail at the task required.
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Who sets the rules and what freedom is there to change them?
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I am Judith Butler, distinguished professor in the graduate school at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Who's Afraid of Gender,
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published by Alan Lane in the UK.
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Gender, conceived as a normative organization of social reality,
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is also communicated as a set of demands or expectations with the understanding
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that certain very painful consequences may follow if one fails to conform.
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Thus, some might fear gender as one would fear any set of norms and possible punishments.
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But there is something intimate about gender.
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It is a way bodies are organized, but also a way they conduct themselves in relation to one another.
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It is this body, after all, material and singular, that is at once socially formed and acting with,
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against, or beyond those norms.
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Yet others, doubtless mindful of this intimate terrain, wish for a set structure, one that does not change in time,
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an identity fixed either by natural or symbolic law or by the state itself.
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They fear the variability of gender, not only the different ways that men and women now act,
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but the apparent fact that the categories change meaning in time, that those assigned female at birth can become men,
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that those assigned male at birth can become women, that intersex people are demanding recognition for their embodied lives,
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and that some people live outside the binary categories of man and woman, either in new categories or in the interstices among them.
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Those who are unsettled by the variability of gender,
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its different configurations are especially vulnerable to those politicians who insist that gender is an ideology and,
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together with other forms of wokeism, are responsible for the destruction of the family, civilization, man, or national cultures.
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The anti -gender political discourse heightens the ordinary anxiety that people have about gender,
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associating and conflating that anxiety with a generalized fear about the future of the world itself,
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its climate, the increasing precarity of work, the intensification of wealth among the very few, the open -ended character of brutal wars,
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the challenges to the homogeneity of national and local cultures posed by migration and displacement.
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There are many reasons to fear, but gender is not the cause of any of those conditions
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that have given rise to a generalized concern about the future of the world.
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In my book, Who's Afraid of Gender?, I track the history of the anti -gender ideology movement from
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its inception at Vatican conferences in the 1990s through its appropriation and reformulation in Latin America and Eastern Europe.
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I respond to many of the criticisms leveled against gender,
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including those that characterize gender as a made -up construct that denies the materiality of the body,
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as an imperialist concept imposed upon local cultures of the global
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South, as a doctrine that has the force to destroy the family, man, civilization, and the natural order,
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as a form of indoctrination or seduction harmful for children, as a denial of biology or biological difference.
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In addition to refuting these charges with arguments and evidence,
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I propose that gender has become a phantasm that collects anxieties,
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fears, and desires that are already circulating in the general public about the future of their way of life,
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the fate of their children if they have them,
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and the general instability of economic and political I suggest that people do have reasons to fear the continuation of war,
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climate catastrophe, the increasingly destructive character of capitalism,
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systemic racism, and forcible displacement of many populations.
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Gender is not the reason for any of these instabilities, which is one reason why the defense of gender,
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as a framework for social analysis, as a field of study, as an essential part of research at all universities,
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has to provide an analysis of how gender became construed as a demonic power and destructive force.
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The defense of gender is at once the defense of open inquiry and the ideal of the university.
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Like the demonization of migrants and trans people in contemporary politics,
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gender functions as a phantasm that absorbs contemporary anxieties as it deflects from their true source.
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For instance, it is said that gender is a doctrine, like totalitarianism, or that it represents the extremes of capitalism.
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Inconsistent allegations abound, culminating in the conviction that gender is an ideology by
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which is meant a false and dogmatic set of beliefs.
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Consider, however, that gender studies as a discipline is by definition interdisciplinary,
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drawing from several paradigms, and it is defined by a set of debates
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and problematics not by statements of doctrine or settled truths.
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Instead, gender studies classrooms are often models of open debate.
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People disagree about methods, the status of theory, the need for regional ethnographies, and the relationship of the academy to social movements.
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There are, in fact, so many disparate approaches
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that most courses dedicated to introducing gender studies can hardly manage to include all the points of view that constitute the discipline.
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I belabor this point only
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because there are those who would reduce gender to a dangerous ideology
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and thus efface the complexity and richness of the framework and its many conceptual contributions to thinking about nature,
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society, power, and embodiment.
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To those who think that gender studies pedagogy is a form of indoctrination, the response must be firm.
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Gender is neither an ideology nor a form of indoctrination.
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Indeed, the critique of gender within gender studies is productive.
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If anything, it is a framework that allows us to ask, among other questions, how is the social world organized,
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through what exclusions, and with what potentials?
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The debates on such questions are open -ended.
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For those who have learned from the field, that openness is a promising value to be affirmed. For others,
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social structures should remain unchanging and based on pre -social differences
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that can be known apart from any interpretive framework or social meanings.
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Those who seek to censor books on gender
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or to close down the teaching of gender studies are themselves imposing a doctrine on research and teaching.
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In addition, shutting down open debate in public life and open inquiry in the academy does not bode well for democracy.
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And yet, this is precisely what the anti -gender ideology movement calls for.
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It is a campaign of falsification and censorship that strengthens repressive state powers.
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My book seeks to understand how the intensified opposition to gender fits within the emerging of authoritarian regimes
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that gain support through the fantasy of restoring patriarchal and heteronormative orders.
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The more that gender ideology as a phrase is discussed as if it describes something real,
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this fiction becomes part of a shared and emergent cultural understanding, or what some call a backlash.
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The complexity of feminism, sexuality, and gender studies as fields,
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and their potential to describe and understand human embodiment in its complexity is replaced by a caricature.
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But that is just one problem to be faced.
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If the only task were to dispel an increasingly prevalent mischaracterization of a field of study,
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we could simply demonstrate the different approaches to scholarship and teaching and show why, based on the evidence provided,
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the caricature fails to grasp the field of study its institutional forms, and its effects on social policy.
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The caricature of gender ideology, however, is deployed to incite fear,
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to identify gender as the cause of public anxiety about the future,
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and to promise a return to a time in which gender binarism and gender hierarchy could be assumed as unchangeable.
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Gender does not only characterize identities it is a framework for understanding a major form of power in society,
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the way it establishes separate spheres and social inequalities and exclusions. For feminists,
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gender became an important term in the 1970s through which to describe and criticize social inequalities and the persistence of masculine domination.
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They asked about the gendered division of labor, the gendering of the public sphere,
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and they help to formulate and institute public policies that seek to oppose discrimination, to establish equal treatment under the law,
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to expose gender -based violence, to delineate specific health care needs,
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and to inquire into the ways society might be transformed to support greater equality,
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justice, and freedom, the basic principles of democracy.
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Gendered frameworks have proven to be productive in ecological politics, migration studies, and anti -violence policies.
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They have been affirmed as part of the history of freedom and equality,
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not only demonstrating how and why inequalities or exclusions exist,
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but contesting discourses and policies that keep a range of people from flourishing.
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It seems important to keep our minds open to all the ways that people can flourish.
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To do that, however, we must affirm the complexity of human experience,
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including biology, rather than accept reductive accounts that take us further away from the truth.
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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione
Questa lezione di conversazione si basa sul video “Judith Butler on Gender”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: gender, ideology, fear, studies, framework. Questo video contiene 107 frasi e 1537 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 12:02. Chi parla mantiene un ritmo costante di circa 128 parole al minuto, comodo per lo shadowing. Solo il 78% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.
Vocaboli chiave di questo video
15 parole del video che vale la pena imparare, con pronuncia e significato:
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| ideology sostantivo | /aɪ.diˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ | ideologia |
| framework sostantivo | /ˈfɹeɪm.wɜːk/ | struttura portante |
| anxiety sostantivo | /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/ | ansia, ansietà |
| complexity sostantivo | /kəmˈplɛk.sɪ.ti/ | complessità |
| doctrine sostantivo | /ˈdɑk.tɹɪn/ | dottrina |
| norm sostantivo | /nɔːm/ | norma |
| inequality sostantivo | /ˌɪn.ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ti/ | disuguaglianza |
| exclusion sostantivo | /ɪksˈkluːʒən/ | esclusione |
| establish verbo | /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/ | stabilire, confermare |
| increasingly avverbio | sempre più, man a mano | |
| equality sostantivo | /ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ti/ | parità, uguaglianza |
| inquiry sostantivo | /ɪnˈkwaɪ(ə)ɹi/ | inchiesta, indagine |
| discipline sostantivo | /ˈdɪsəplɪn/ | disciplina |
| biology sostantivo | /baɪˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/ | biologia |
| productive aggettivo | /pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/ | produttivo |
I phrasal verb che sentirai
| Parola | Pronuncia | Significato |
|---|---|---|
| make up verbo | /ˌmeɪk ˈʌp/ | comporsi |
| shut down verbo | spegnere |
La grammatica di questo video
Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:
| Struttura | Nel video |
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| Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fa | is also communicated · are organized · are unsettled |
| Frasi relative who / which + frase — un’informazione in più su una persona o una cosa | one that does · Those who are · instabilities, which is |
| Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adesso | have given · has become · have learned |
Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione
- I suoni “th”: authoritarian /əˌθɑ.ɹəˈtɛɹ.i.ən/, ethnography /ɛθˈnɑɡɹəfi/
- I suoni “sh” e “zh”: exclusion /ɪksˈkluːʒən/, establish /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/, migration /maɪˈɡɹeɪʃ(ə)n/, civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, expectation /ˌɛk.spɛkˈteɪ.ʃən/
- Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: ideology /aɪ.diˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/, anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, complexity /kəmˈplɛk.sɪ.ti/, inequality /ˌɪn.ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ti/, equality /ɪˈkwɑ.lɪ.ti/
I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:
- /h/ — va soffiata, non è muta: harmful /ˈhɑɹmfl̩/, hierarchy /ˈhaɪ.ə.ɹɑː(ɹ).ki/, heighten /ˈhaɪ̯.tən/, heteronormative /ˌhɛtəɹoʊˈnoɹmətɪv/, homogeneity /ˌhoʊ.mə.d͡ʒəˈniː.ə.ti/
- Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: framework /ˈfɹeɪm.wɜːk/, establish /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/, productive /pɹəˈdʌk.tɪv/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, demonstrate /ˈdɛm.ənˌstɹeɪt/
- /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, establish /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/, capitalism /ˈkæp.ə.təlˌɪzm̩/, translation /tɹænzˈleɪʃən/, apparent /əˈpæɹənt/
Come esercitarsi con questo video
- Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
- Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
- Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come ideology, framework, anxiety.
Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?
Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.