Undoing Gender
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| Title: | Undoing Gender |
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| Description: | Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory, Butler considers the norms that govern--and fail to govern--gender and sexuality as they relate to the constraints on recognizable personhood. The book constitutes a reconsideration of her earlier view on gender performativity from Gender Trouble. In this work, the critique of gender norms is clearly situated within the framework of human persistence and survival. And to'do'one's gender in certain ways sometimes implies'undoing'dominant notions of personhood. She writes about the'New Gender Politics'that has emerged in recent years, a combination of movements concerned with transgender, transsexuality, intersex, and their complex relations to feminist and queer theory. |
| Authors: | Judith Butler |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Sex role, Gender identity |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, PHILOSOPHY / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory, Butler considers the norms that govern--and fail to govern--gender and sexuality as they relate to the constraints on recognizable personhood. The book constitutes a reconsideration of her earlier view on gender performativity from Gender Trouble. In this work, the critique of gender norms is clearly situated within the framework of human persistence and survival. And to'do'one's gender in certain ways sometimes implies'undoing'dominant notions of personhood. She writes about the'New Gender Politics'that has emerged in recent years, a combination of movements concerned with transgender, transsexuality, intersex, and their complex relations to feminist and queer theory. |
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| ISBN: | 9780203606278 9780415969222 9780415969239 9781138582866 9781135880767 9781135880750 9781135880736 9780203499627 |
