Theorizing Gender: An Introduction - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Rachel Alsop, Annette Fitzsimons, Kathleen LennonPublish date:2002-06-03Pages:288
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Polity PressISBN-13:9780745619446ISBN-10:745619444UPC:9780745619446Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Gender Studies, Discrimination, Feminism & Feminist TheorySize:9.08 x 5.96 x 0.85 inchesWeight:0.93Product ID:SC3KJDVRJ4
This accessible text aims to give a theoretical overview of approaches to gender. The book discusses the major theories concerned with the ways in which we 'become engendered', and explains and evaluates naturalist, psychoanalytic, materialist and post-structuralist accounts.
Tensions between these different approaches are acknowledged, but stark polarities are resisted. Throughout the book it is recognized that becoming gendered implicates and is implicated by other aspects of social becoming. The work of Judith Butler is discussed in detail and its importance and limitations spelt out in key chapters on sexuality, the body, transgendering and political agency. Debates between 'queer' approaches to gender and those prioritizing sexual difference are also brought to the fore.
Theorizing Gender aims to provide a framework for weaving together what are often viewed as opposing directions of thought. Students and researchers in sociology, philosophy and gender studies, and all those with an interest in gender will find it an invaluable resource.
Tensions between these different approaches are acknowledged, but stark polarities are resisted. Throughout the book it is recognized that becoming gendered implicates and is implicated by other aspects of social becoming. The work of Judith Butler is discussed in detail and its importance and limitations spelt out in key chapters on sexuality, the body, transgendering and political agency. Debates between 'queer' approaches to gender and those prioritizing sexual difference are also brought to the fore.
Theorizing Gender aims to provide a framework for weaving together what are often viewed as opposing directions of thought. Students and researchers in sociology, philosophy and gender studies, and all those with an interest in gender will find it an invaluable resource.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Polity PressISBN-13:9780745619446ISBN-10:745619444UPC:9780745619446Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Gender Studies, Discrimination, Feminism & Feminist TheorySize:9.08 x 5.96 x 0.85 inchesWeight:0.93Product ID:SC3KJDVRJ4
Dr Rachel Alsop, Gender Studies, University of Hull
Dr. Annette FitzSimons, School of Social and Professional Studies, University of Lincoln and Humberside
Dr. Kathleen Lennon, Philosophy, University of Hull
Publisher: Polity Press
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