Synthesized answer
The provided passages describe that Judith Butler addresses the regulation of sexuality and gender in psychology, aesthetics, and social policy [Passage 2]. The book delves into issues such as new kinship, psychoanalysis, the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and social transformation [Passage 2]. Butler examines the norms that govern and fail to govern gender and sexuality, and how these relate to constraints on recognizable personhood [Passage 2].
The author also discusses "new gender politics," which combines movements related to transgender, transsexuality, and intersex with feminist and queer theory [Passage 1]. Butler considers how "doing" one's gender in certain ways can imply "undoing" dominant notions of personhood [Passage 2]. However, the passages do not provide specific evidence or examples that Butler uses to support these claims.
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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…
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…