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.

朱迪斯·巴特勒

1956年出生于美国，耶鲁大学哲学博士，加州大学伯克利分校修辞与比较文学系教授。巴特勒是当代最著名的后现代主义思想家之一，在女性主义批评、性别研究、当代政治哲学和伦理学等学术领域成就卓著，主要著作有《性别麻烦》、《事关紧要的身体》、《消解性别》、《欲望的主体》等。

郭劼

北京大学英语系文学硕士，美国约翰·霍普金斯大学比较文学博士，现任教于美国南卡罗莱纳大学语言文学文化系比较文学专业。研究兴趣包括性别理论、妇女研究、电影理论及明清文学。