Undoing Gender Butler Judith
Undoing Gender Butler Judith Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender,…
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Undoing Gender Butler Judith
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. The book constitutes a reconsideration of her earlier view on gender performativity from Gender Trouble. 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.
And to "do" one's gender in certain ways sometimes implies "undoing" dominant notions of personhood. In this work, the critique of gender norms is clearly situated within the framework of human persistence and survival. She writes about the "New Gender Politics" that has emerged in recent years, a combination of movements concerned with