Undoing gender /

Undoing gender /

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Author / Creator:	Butler, Judith, 1956- author
Imprint:	New York ; London : Routledge, 2004.
Description:	viii, 273 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Sex role. Gender identity. Gender identity. Sex role.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5276300

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ISBN:	0415969220 (alk. paper) 9780415969222 (alk. paper) 0415969239 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780415969239 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780203499627 020349962X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-267) and index.
Summary:	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 and purpose of the incest taboo, and the problems of kinship.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
1. Beside Oneself: On the Limits of Sexual Autonomy
2. Regulating Gender
3. Doing Justice to Someone: Allegories of Transsexuality
4. Undiagnosing Gender
5. Is Kinship Always Already Heterosexual?
6. Longing for Recognition
7. Quandaries of the Incest Taboo
8. Bodily Confessions
9. The End of Sexual Difference?
10. The Question of Social Transformation
11. Can the Other to Philosophy Speak?
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Index