Undoing Gender by Judith Butler, ISBN-13: 978-0415969239
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- Publisher: Routledge (August 17, 2004)
- Language: English
- 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 9780415969239
- ISBN-13: 978-0415969239
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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Acting in Concert 1
1 Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy 17
2 Gender Regulations 40
3 Doing Justice to Someone: Sex Reassignment and
Allegories of Transsexuality 57
4 Undiagnosing Gender 75
5 Is Kinship Always Already Heterosexual? 102
6 Longing for Recognition 131
7 Quandaries of the Incest Taboo 152
8 Bodily Confessions 161
9 The End of Sexual Difference? 174
10 The Question of Social Transformation 204
11 Can the “Other” of Philosophy Speak? 232
Notes 251
Works Cited 261
Index 269
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Among her books are Gender Trouble, Bodies That Matter, and Excitable Speech, all published by Routledge.
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