{"id":348,"date":"2024-03-25T00:24:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T00:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/?p=348"},"modified":"2024-03-25T00:24:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T00:24:20","slug":"hannah-mccann-on-judith-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/2024\/03\/25\/hannah-mccann-on-judith-butler\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannah McCann on Judith Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">In this episode, we are joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hannahmccann.com.au\/\"><span class=\"s1\">Dr. Hannah McCann<\/span><\/a>, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the <a href=\"https:\/\/findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au\/profile\/768278-hannah-mccann\">University of Melbourne<\/a>, author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Queering-Femininity-Sexuality-Feminism-and-the-Politics-of-Presentation\/McCann\/p\/book\/9780367370862\">Queering Femininity: Sexuality, Feminism and the Politics of Presentation<\/a>, and co-author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macmillanihe.com\/page\/detail\/Queer-Theory-Now\/?K=9781352007510\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Queer Theory Now<\/i><\/span><\/a> (which we discussed on an <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/2020\/07\/09\/hannah-mccann-and-whitney-monaghan-on-queer-theory\/\">earlier episode of the podcast<\/a>). In our conversation, Hannah introduces us to the value and joys of reading Judith Butler and discusses why Butler&#8217;s theorizing of sex and gender has been demonized by and come under attack from the political right. Hannah helps us better understand Butler&#8217;s ideas through reflecting on her own intellectual development and current project on queer hair salons. Hannah also offers us a brief preview of Judith Butler\u2019s recently published <i><a href=\"https:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/books\/9780374608224\/whosafraidofgender\">Whose Afraid of Gender<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-180\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/files\/2020\/08\/gtac_field-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/files\/2020\/08\/gtac_field-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/files\/2020\/08\/gtac_field-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/files\/2020\/08\/gtac_field-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/files\/2020\/08\/gtac_field-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/files\/2020\/08\/gtac_field-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/files\/2020\/08\/gtac_field-2048x2048.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>hann<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1036\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-348-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/GTaC54_McCann_on_Butler.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/GTaC54_McCann_on_Butler.mp3\">http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/GTaC54_McCann_on_Butler.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/GTaC54_McCann_on_Butler.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/?powerpress_pinw=348-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/files.thesocietypages.org\/downloads\/GTaC54_McCann_on_Butler.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"GTaC54_McCann_on_Butler.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode, we are joined by Dr. Hannah McCann, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne, author of Queering Femininity: Sexuality, Feminism and the Politics of Presentation, and co-author of Queer Theory Now (which we discussed on an earlier episode of the podcast). In our conversation, Hannah introduces us to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":971,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[126496,126495,126497],"theorist":[2950,126490,103911],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-sex","tag-sexuality","theorist-judith-butler","theorist-lauren-berlant","theorist-sara-ahmed"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348"},{"taxonomy":"theorist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/theorist?post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}