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What if gender isn't something you are, but something you do? "The Trouble with Gender" unpacks Judith Butler's revolutionary book "Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity" - the philosophy that changed how we understand gender, identity, and power. Each episode explores Butler's groundbreaking theory that gender is performative - constructed through repeated acts rather than expressing some inner truth.

An NPR Books We Love 2025 One of Brooklyn Public Library’s Books We Love 2025 The world has stopped. But Rachel is just getting started… It’s spring of 2020 and Rachel Bloomstein—mother of three, recent divorcée, and Brooklynite—is stuck inside. But her newly awakened sexual desire...

David Shields’s The Trouble with Men: Reflections on Sex, Love, Marriage, Porn, and Power is an immersion into the perils, limits, and possibilities of human intimacy. All at once a love letter to his wife, a nervy reckoning with his own fallibility, a meditation on the impact of porn on American culture, and an attempt to understand marriage (one marriage, the idea of marriage, all marriages), The Trouble with Men is exquisitely balanced between the personal and the anthropological, nakedness and restraint.