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Undoing gender

In her classic work Gender Trouble - a book that changed the face of gender studies - Judith Butler presented the idea of "gender performativity"--The notion that we all 'do' gender in some way. In her new collection of essays, Butler clarifies the critical task of "undoing gender" when its terms are produced in the service of regulatory and punitive power. Undoing Gender addresses the regulation of sexuality and gender that takes place in psychology, aesthetics, and social policy. These essays revisit the problem of kinship in light of new challenges to the family form, interrogate the meaning and purposes of the incest taboo, and challenge the ways in which intersexuality and transsexuality are pathologized. The volume also includes a reading of Willa Cather, a speculation on the millennial goals of feminist theory, as well as a cultural analysis of sexual and racial panic in the censorship of the arts.; Undoing Gender deepens issues introduced by Butler's earlier scholarship: the materiality of the body, the meaning and instrument of human agency, the relation between power and the psyche or power and the body, psychic triangulation and the incest taboo, the political limits and conditions of psychoanalysis, and the ramifications of rights discourse for those who are, by definition, unauthorized to make use of those terms. The volume ends with a reflection on the way that philosophy is, and must be, engaged with cultural questions of how power works. Undoing Gender will be essential reading for all serious readers interested in gender and sexuality, and in questions of philosophy, language, and the body.

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  • "In her classic work Gender Trouble - a book that changed the face of gender studies - Judith Butler presented the idea of "gender performativity"--The notion that we all 'do' gender in some way. In her new collection of essays, Butler clarifies the critical task of "undoing gender" when its terms are produced in the service of regulatory and punitive power. Undoing Gender addresses the regulation of sexuality and gender that takes place in psychology, aesthetics, and social policy. These essays revisit the problem of kinship in light of new challenges to the family form, interrogate the meaning and purposes of the incest taboo, and challenge the ways in which intersexuality and transsexuality are pathologized. The volume also includes a reading of Willa Cather, a speculation on the millennial goals of feminist theory, as well as a cultural analysis of sexual and racial panic in the censorship of the arts.; Undoing Gender deepens issues introduced by Butler's earlier scholarship: the materiality of the body, the meaning and instrument of human agency, the relation between power and the psyche or power and the body, psychic triangulation and the incest taboo, the political limits and conditions of psychoanalysis, and the ramifications of rights discourse for those who are, by definition, unauthorized to make use of those terms. The volume ends with a reflection on the way that philosophy is, and must be, engaged with cultural questions of how power works. Undoing Gender will be essential reading for all serious readers interested in gender and sexuality, and in questions of philosophy, language, and the body."@en
  • "Butler addresses the regulation of sexuality and gender that takes place in psychology, aesthetics, and social policy. These essays deepen her treatment of issues introduced by earlier work on the relationship between power and the body, the meaning & purpose of the incest taboo, and the problems of kinship."
  • "In ihrer epochemachenden Studie "Das Unbehagen der Geschlechter" entwickelt Judith Butler die These der Performativität des Geschlechts: die Einsicht, daß unser Geschlecht nicht nur durch biologische Parameter bestimmt ist, sondern daß wir es durch unser Sprechen und Handeln allererst erzeugen. Was wir sind, hängt davon ab, was wir tun - was wir tun, liegt aber häufig nicht in unserer Macht. In ihrem neuen Buch geht sie nun insbesondere den Reglementierungen und Einschränkungen unseres Handelns nach und erforscht die Möglichkeiten, bestehende Muster, Regeln und Ordnungen zu demontieren, um neue Handlungsspielräume - und neue Möglichkeiten, die eigene Identität zu gestalten - zu erschließen. Ihr neues Werk vertieft und bilanziert eine Reihe von Themen und Thesen aus Butlers früheren Werken: die Materialität des Körpers, die Beziehung zwischen Macht und Psyche, die politischen Dimensionen der Psychoanalyse und die Auswirkungen des juridischen Diskurses auf diejenigen, die nicht autorisiert sind, an ihm teilzunehmen. Die einzelnen Essays untersuchen das Problem der Verwandtschaft vor dem Hintergrund einer immer stärkeren Infragestellung der Lebensform Familie und die Bedeutung und Ziele des Inzesttabus; sie hinterfragen die Pathologisierung von Intersexualität und Transsexualität und unterziehen das Phänomen sexueller und ethnischer Panik in der Kunstzensur einer kritischen Analyse. Der Band schließt mit einem grundlegenden Essay über den Status der Philosophie und ihre Möglichkeiten, das "Andere der Philosophie" zur Sprache kommen zu lassen."
  • "Avvalendosi del punto di vista della teoria femminista e della "queer theory" (la più recente evoluzione degli studi gay e lesbici), l'autrice considera le norme che guidano - e falliscono nel guidare - il genere e la sessualità come vincolanti per la persona. La sua critica delle regole relative al genere è chiaramente situata entro il quadro della persistenza e sopravvivenza umana: cosa potrebbe significare per l'individuo "sciogliere" quelle concezioni normativamente restrittive sul sesso e il genere? Talvolta tali concezioni possono annullare la persona, minandone la capacità di avere un'esistenza vivibile. Altre volte la loro dissolvenza può tuttavia far franare terreni lungamente sedimentati."
  • ""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."--Publisher's description."

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  • "Aufsatzsammlung"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Ressources Internet"

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  • "Raščinjavanje roda"
  • "Défaire le genre"
  • "Die Macht der Geschlechternormen und die Grenzen des Menschlichen"
  • "Undoing gender"
  • "Undoing gender"@en
  • "Undoing gender / [ebook]"
  • "Deshacer el género"
  • "Deshacer el género"@es
  • "消解性别"
  • "La disfatta del genere"@it
  • "La disfatta del genere"
  • "消解性別"
  • "Xiao jie xing bie"
  • "Undoing Gender"@en
  • "Genus ogjort : kropp, begär och möjlig existens"@sv

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