Undoing Gender, Judith Butler
Undoing Gender, Judith Butler
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Undoing Gender

Author: Judith Butler

Narrator: Kelly Burke

Unabridged: 12 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/2022

Synopsis

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 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.

About Judith Butler

Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds the Hannah Arendt Chair at the European Graduate School. She is the author of Gender Trouble, Precarious Life, Frames of War, and Towards a Performative Theory of Assembly.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Matthew on November 19, 2009

Anyone who has read Judy Butler has had to contend with philosophical mind-benders of astonishing brilliance and tortured diction, such as: "What happens to the subject and to the stability of gender categories when the epistemic regime of presumptive heterosexuality is unmasked as that which produc......more

Goodreads review by Jamie on March 30, 2010

I'd heard this was the "accessible" Butler text, which is sorta true, but just remember--it's still Butler. I think perhaps the reason many people find this to be a more engaging text is that Butler's concerns, though densely theoretical, have more immediate 'real life' applications than, say, in Ge......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on March 20, 2018

I often see people warning potential readers to stay away from Judith Butler due to the 'incomprehensibility' or 'difficulty' of the material. Should the style in which something is written decrease the value? Should all works be written to the same style and standard in order that they are acceptab......more

Goodreads review by annelitterarum on May 13, 2024

Judith Butler ne cessera jamais de me mettre au défi avec le niveau de lecture de ses oeuvres. Ici, je m'attendais à une suite peut-être un peu plus marquante à Trouble dans le genre, mais j'ai tout de même été servie de solutions quoique rien de beaucoup plus que j'aie pu imaginer au fil d'autres l......more

Goodreads review by Sam on December 13, 2024

(5*) re-read for my diss. I find myself always so moved by their last essay, their mediation on philosophy as a discipline, and too, so touched by their personal anecdotes. -------------- (4.5) they did it again. The theoretical enquiry was not so revolutionary as it was in Bodies or Gender Trouble,......more

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