Record Nr.

UNINA9910961792403321

Autore

Butler Judith <1956->

Titolo

Undoing gender / / Judith Butler

Pubbl/distr/stampa


New York ; ; London, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN


9781138582866
1138582867
9781135880750
1135880751
9780203606278
0203606272
9781135880767
113588076X
9781280059797
1280059796
9780203499627
020349962X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (284 p.)

Classificazione

71.31

Disciplina

305.3

Soggetti

Sex role

Gender identity

Rol sexual

Identitat de gènere

Gènere

Transsexuals

Condicions socials

Diferenciació sexual

Transgender people

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-267) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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?

Sommario/riassunto

Undoing Gender addresses the regulation of sexuality and gender that takes place in psychology, aesthetics, and social policy.