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((Short description|2004 book by Judith Butler))
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'''''Undoing Gender''''' is a 2004 book by American philosopher and [[gender studies]] writer [[Judith Butler]].

==Summary==
Butler examines [[gender]], [[sex]], [[psychoanalysis]], and the way medicine and the law treat [[intersex]] and [[transgender]] people.<ref name="Zavaletta 2005">((cite journal|last=Zavaletta|first=Atticus Schoch|date= May 2005|title=Undoing Gender (review)|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/192731|journal=[[The Comparatist]]|language=en|publisher=[[University of North Carolina Press]]|volume=29|pages=152–153|id=((Project MUSE|192731))|doi=10.1353/com.2006.0019|s2cid=161425190|access-date=October 3, 2018))</ref> Focusing on the case of [[David Reimer]] who was born male and [[sex assignment|reassigned]] to be [[gender of rearing|raised as a girl]] after a botched circumcision, Butler reexamines the theory of [[performativity]] that they originally explored in ''[[Gender Trouble]]'' (1990). David—then renamed Brenda—rediscovers his masculinity and goes on to live his life as a male again.<ref name=Chinn2007>((cite journal |last1=Chinn |first1=Sarah E. |title=Review of Undoing Gender |journal=Women's Studies Quarterly |date=2007 |volume=35 |issue=1/2 |pages=315–318 |id=((ProQuest|233630965)) |jstor=27649679 ))</ref> While many of Butler's books are intended for a highly academic audience, ''Undoing Gender'' reaches out to a much broader readership.

Butler discusses how gender is performed without one being conscious of it, but says that it does not mean this performativity is "automatic or mechanical". They argue that we have desires that do not originate from our personhood, but rather, from social norms. The philosopher also debates our notions of "human" and "less-than-human" and how these culturally imposed ideas can keep one from having a "viable life" as the biggest concerns are usually about whether a person will be accepted if their desires differ from normality. They state that one may feel the need of being recognized in order to live, but that at the same time, the conditions to be recognized make life "unlivable". The writer proposes an interrogation of such conditions so that people who resist them may have more possibilities of living.<ref name=Chinn2007/>

==Reception==
In a review of the book for ''[[The Comparatist]]'', Atticus Schoch Zavaletta wrote that ''Undoing Gender'' is the first of Butler's works to address transgender and intersex demographics in a prominent manner, and argued that, in doing so, Butler further "push[es] against the boundaries of the field she had a large part in creating."<ref name="Zavaletta 2005" /> Zavaletta concluded: "''Undoing Gender'' constitutes a thoughtful and provocative response to the new gender politics and elegantly employs psychoanalysis, philosophy, [[feminism]], and [[queer theory]] in an effort to pry open the future of the human. Butler carefully attends to contemporary culture, asking questions crucial to LGBTQI studies, ones that are ultimately not only about gays or lesbians but are affirmative of the human and all its possible futures."<ref name="Zavaletta 2005" />

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://transadvocate.com/gender-performance-the-transadvocate-interviews-judith-butler_n_13652.htm Gender Performance and Trans-experience - Interview with Judith Butler]
* [https://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/genderandsex/modules/butlerperformativity.html Gender and Performance - Judith Butler Basics]

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