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Is this a debate in which both sides are driven by fear . Judith butler, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Im glad to be here. Well, its a pleasure to have you here. You have a long academic career. Youve written some very well known books on gender theory. I just wonder, in your view, whether this debate about gender has fundamentally changed . Has the climate around it really changed . Yes, i think it has. I think at the beginning of gender studies, a very important field within feminism, In The Beginning of queer theory, we talked about gender in different ways. We talked about the Gender Division Of Labour or gender differentials when were discussing literacy or education how many men or women are getting certain benefits. It was an important way of thinking about a powerful social structure in society, mainly with the idea of trying to achieve greater equality or trying to understand why hierarchies exist and what we might do to get over them. But there was also Gender Identity, whi

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