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Undoing Gender
- Narrated by: Kelly Burke
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
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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.
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"Though Butler has published pleanty...it's her most recent book, Undoing Gender, that's done me in once again...[It is] perhaps Butler's most accessible work."--HerIzons, Winter 2006, Vol 19 No 3
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- Anonymous User
- 10-05-23
Difficult but rewarding
It's not the books or philosophys fault that you do not understand it. Reading Butler is a journey and it needs to be done in the right way to be understood.
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- TS
- 28-10-22
8 minutes in and I gave up
Trying to listen to both sides of the aisle on this woke material and stuff like this makes it very hard! I literally got 8 minutes in and I have no idea what she’s on about. What on earth do iNtElLeCtUaLs have to write sentences like “Sometimes a normative conception of gender can undo one’s personhood, undermining the capacity to persevere in a livable life” for? What’s wrong with using normal language? That was thirty seconds in! If you want people to read your message and listen to you, you have to communicate clearly not attempt to show off your vocabulary.
No idea what she was trying to say. From the slow speaking of the narrator, I’d imagine she didn’t either. Very disappointed and now I have to find something else to explain wokeness to me.
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