Undoing Gender
by Judith Butler
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Undoing Gender addresses the regulation of sexuality and gender that takes place in psychology, aesthetics, and social policy.Tags
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This book forms the basis of my understanding of how a body becomes gendered, how grief is experienced, how we are built and dissembled and how that experiences informs our bodies, our lives, our genders. It teaches us that we are related and relational and that gender sits at the center of the phenomenon of being.
Judith Butler wordt gezien als dé grondlegster van moderne genderstudies, maar zoals steeds zijn haar boeken zeer moeilijk geschreven en zeer theoretisch - Judith Butler is seen as THE founding mother of modern gender studies, but as usual, her books are difficult to grasp and very theoretical.
Didn't read all of it because the library took it from me before… uhm, you know. Deeply impressed and sure that I'll read some of Butler's other books soon.
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Angeblich leichter zu lesen als ihre früheren Werke: Ich für mich habe festgestellt, dass ich NACH der Lektüre dieses Buches überhaupt nicht mehr sagen kann was Gender überhaupt IST. Aber vielleicht liegt es auch daran, dass Gender eigentlich NICHT ist.
Jo
Jo
Mar 16, 2010German
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Judith Butler was born in 1956. She is nationally known for her writings on gender and sexuality. She argues that men and women are not dissimilar and that the notion they are is cultural not biological in books such as Bodies That Matter: On The Discursive Limits Of "Sex" (1993), Excitable Speech: Contemporary Scenes Of Politics (1996), and The show more Psychic Life Of Power: Theories In Subjection (1997). In Gender Trouble (1990), the title a play on John Waters' camp classic Female Trouble (1975), Butler claims that both gender and drag are a kind of imitation for which there is no original. A professor of philosophy at University of California at Berkeley, Butler attended Yale, receiving a B.A. in 1978 and a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1984. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Genres
- Sexuality and Gender Studies, Nonfiction, Philosophy, LGBTQ+, General Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 305.3 — Society, Government, and Culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity People by gender or sex
- LCC
- HQ1075 .B89 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Sex role
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- 6 — English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish
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- Paper, Ebook
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