About the Book: Undoing Gender
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 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" ones gender in
certain