Redoing Gender demonstrates how difficult it is to be anything other than a man or a woman in a
society that selectively acknowledges those two genders. Gender nonbinary people-who identify
as other genders besides simply man or woman-have begun to disrupt this binary system but the
limited progress they have made has required significant everyday labor. Through interviews
with 47 nonbinary people this book offers rich description of these forms of labor including
rethinking sex and gender resignifying gender redoing relationships and resisting erasure.
The final chapter interrogates the lasting impact of this labor through follow-up interviews
with participants four years later. Although nonbinary people are finally managing to achieve
some recognition it is clear that this change has not happened without a fight that continues
to this day. The diverse experiences of nonbinary people in this book will help cisgender
people relate to gender minorities with more compassion and may also appeal to those
questioning their own gender. This text will also be of keen interest to academics across
Sociology and Gender Studies.
