
Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender & sexuality focusing on new kinship psychoanalysis & the incest taboo transgender intersex diagnostic categories social violence & the tasks of social transformation In terms that draw from feminist & queer theory Butler considers the norms that govern--and fail to govern--gender & 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 & survival & 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 & their complex relations to feminist & queer theory