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Undoing gender

Author: Judith Butler
Publisher: New York ; London : Routledge, 2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Judith Butler
ISBN: 0415969220 9780415969222 0415969239 9780415969239 9780203499627 020349962X
OCLC Number: 53796874
Description: viii, 273 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction : acting in concert --
Beside oneself : on the limits of sexual autonomy --
Gender regulations --
Doing justice to someone : sex reassignment and allegories of transsexuality --
Undiagnosing gender --
Is kinship always already heterosexual? --
Longing for recognition --
Quandaries of the incest taboo --
Bodily confessions --
The end of sexual difference? --
The question of social transformation --
Can the "other" of philosophy speak?
Responsibility: Judith Butler.
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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.

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