# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Non-fiction Book Group discusses: Judith Butler’s Who’s Afraid of Gender
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 12 Aug, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Wed, 12 Aug, 2026 at 08:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Our book group is open to all. Attend every meeting, occasionally or just once in your life. All we ask is that you read the book in advance and take part in the discussion. There’s a short introduction by a member of staff, a group regular, or someone we know with a special interest in the book in question. This is a casual group discussion, there is no author or presentation.

From one of the most influential thinkers of our time, an enlightening, essential account of how a fear of gender is fuelling reactionary politics around the world.

Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to right-wing movements today. Global networks have formed ‘anti-gender ideology movements’ dedicated to circulating a fantasy that gender is a dangerous threat to families, local cultures, civilization – and even ‘man’ himself. Inflamed by the rhetoric of public figures, this movement has sought to abolish reproductive justice, undermine protections against violence, and strip trans and queer people of their rights.

But what, exactly, is so disturbing about gender? In this vital, courageous book, Butler carefully examines how ‘gender’ has become a phantasm for emerging authoritarian regimes, fascist formations and transexclusionary feminists, and the concrete ways in which this phantasm works. Operating in tandem with deceptive accounts of critical race theory and xenophobic panics about migration, the anti-gender movement demonizes struggles for equality and leaves millions of people vulnerable to subjugation.

An essential intervention into one of the most fraught issues of our moment, Who’s Afraid of Gender? is a galvanizing call to make a broad coalition with all those who struggle for equality and fight injustice. Imagining new possibilities for freedom and solidarity, Butler offers us an essentially hopeful work that is both timely and timeless.

You do not need to be an expert of any kind to attend this group! We parse and discuss the text together with the hope of building a better understanding collectively.

Refreshments provided
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- **city**: Nottingham
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: 14A Long Row, NG1 2DH Nottingham, United Kingdom
- **lat**: 52.95377
- **long**: -1.15103
- **full address**: 14A Long Row, NG1 2DH Nottingham, United Kingdom, 14a Long Row, Nottingham, NG1 2, United Kingdom

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  - **A:** Non-fiction Book Group discusses: Judith Butler s Who s Afraid of Gender takes place on Wed, 12 Aug, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Wed, 12 Aug, 2026 at 08:30 pm at 14A Long Row, NG1 2DH Nottingham, United Kingdom, 14a Long Row, Nottingham, NG1 2, United Kingdom.
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