Undoing Gender

<strong>Undoing Gender</strong> constitutes Judith Butlers recent reflections on gender andsexuality focusing on new kinship psychoanalysis and the incest taboo... » 

Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butlers recent reflections on gender andsexuality focusing on new kinship psychoanalysis and the incest tabootransgender intersex diagnostic categories social violence and the tasks ofsocial transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theoryButler considers the norms that governand fail to governgender andsexuality as they relate to the constraints on recognizable personhood. Thebook constitutes a reconsideration of her earlier view on gender performativityfrom Gender Trouble. In this work the critique of gender norms is clearlysituated within the framework of human persistence and survival. And to doones gender in certain ways sometimes implies undoing dominant notions ofpersonhood. She writes about the New Gender Politics that has emerged inrecent years a combination of movements concerned with transgendertranssexuality intersex and their complex relations to feminist and queertheory. «