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Judith Butler - Undoing Gender - 9780415969239 - V9780415969239
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Undoing Gender

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Description for Undoing Gender Paperback. Undoing Gender addresses the regulation of sexuality and gender that takes place in psychology, aesthetics, and social policy. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 224 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 424.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
424g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415969239
SKU
V9780415969239
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-3

About Judith Butler
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.

Reviews for Undoing Gender
"Though Butler has published pleanty...it's her most recent book, Undoing Gender, that's done me in once again...[It is] perhaps Butler's most accessible work."
HerIzons, Winter 2006, Vol 19 No 3

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