Threatening Gender
La Maison Française (Columbia) Buell Hall, 515 West 116th Street, New York City, NY, United StatesTo RSVP, please click here. Gender studies have long faced indifference. But today, they are confronted with two symmetrical problems: instrumentalization and rejection. On the one hand, the rhetoric of “sexual democracy” has been mobilized for xenophobic and racist purposes. On the other hand, reactionaries attack the so-called “ideology of gender.” Which is more threatening? Éric Fassin is Professor of Sociology…