Undoing Gender

by Judith Butler

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415969239
• ISBN13: 9780415969239
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"