Elizabeth Grosz is a post-structuralist theorist who focuses on the body as text. She analyzes and defines the human anatomy along a gender spectrum which bends and curves to accomodate the multiplicity of human forms. Her book Volatile Bodies explains this spectrum and how, just as gender is constructed, we can de-construct it by recontextualizing our bodies.
Although I haven't read Grosz's later works, I have heard her lecture from them. Sadly, she only sees the possibility of gender deconstruction for females now. In her theory, men are robbed of that agency, which is a bit sexist, though I still think her work on gender theory is overall a step in the right direction.
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