Undoing Gender

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What are the practical implications?

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The provided passages do not explicitly detail the "practical implications" of the ideas presented in *Undoing Gender*.

However, the passages do indicate that Judith Butler addresses the regulation of sexuality and gender in areas such as psychology, aesthetics, and social policy [Passage 2]. The book also focuses on the "tasks of social transformation" and the constraints on recognizable personhood [Passage 2]. Furthermore, Butler discusses the "New Gender Politics," which combines movements concerned with transgender, transsexuality, and intersex issues in relation to feminist and queer theory [Passage 1, Passage 2]. The critique of gender norms is situated within the framework of human persistence and survival [Passage 2].

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metimes 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." -- Publisher's description. --- Google Books --- Title: Undoing Gender by Judith Butler Description: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Categories: History Pages: 292 Snippet: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa…
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Title: Undoing Gender by Judith Butler Description: 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 & purpose of the incest taboo, and the problems of kinship. "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…
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