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 social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory, Butler considers the norms that govern--and fail to govern--gender and sexuality as they relate to the constraints on recognizable personhood. The book constitutes a reconsideration of her earlier view on gender performativity from Gender Trouble. In this work, the critique of gender norms is clearly situated within the framework of human persistence and survival. And to "do" one's gender in certain ways sometimes 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.

硃迪斯·巴特勒

1956年齣生於美國，耶魯大學哲學博士，加州大學伯剋利分校修辭與比較文學係教授。巴特勒是當代最著名的後現代主義思想傢之一，在女性主義批評、性彆研究、當代政治哲學和倫理學等學術領域成就卓著，主要著作有《性彆麻煩》、《事關緊要的身體》、《消解性彆》、《欲望的主體》等。

郭劼

北京大學英語係文學碩士，美國約翰·霍普金斯大學比較文學博士，現任教於美國南卡羅萊納大學語言文學文化係比較文學專業。研究興趣包括性彆理論、婦女研究、電影理論及明清文學。