Undoing Gender Audiobook Libro.fm

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Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butlers 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 governand fail to governgender 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 ones 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