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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
Since Its Initial Publication In 1990, This Book Has Become A Key Work Of Contemporary Feminist Theory, And An Essential Work For Anyone Interested In The Study Of Gender, Queer Theory, Or The Politic...s Of Sexuality In Culture. This Is The Text Where The Author Began To Advance The Ideas That Would Go On To Take Life As Performativity Theory, As Well As Some Of The First Articulations Of The Possibility For Subversive Gender Practices. Overall, This Book Offers A Powerful Critique Of Heteronormativity And Of The Function Of Gender In The Modern World. Subjects Of Sex/gender/desire. Women As The Subject Of Feminism -- The Compulsory Order Of Sex/gender/desire -- Gender : The Circular Ruins Of Contemporary Debate -- Theorizing The Binary, The Unitary, And Beyond -- Identity, Sex, And The Metaphysics Of Substance -- Language, Power, And The Strategies Of Displacement -- Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, And The Production Of The Heterosexual Matrix. Structuralism's Critical Exchange -- Lacan, Riviere, And The Strategies Of Masquerade -- Freud And The Melancholia Of Gender -- Gender Complexity And The Limits Of Identification -- Reformulating Prohibition As Power -- Subversive Bodily Acts. The Body Politics Of Julia Kristeva -- Foucault, Herculine, And The Politics Of Sexual Discontinuity -- Monique Wittig : Bodily Disintegration And Fictive Sex -- Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions -- Conclusion: From Parody To Politics. Judith Butler ; With An Introduction By The Author. Originally Published: 1999. 2nd Ed. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [205]-228) And Index.
Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us
Part Coming-of-age Story, Part Mind-altering Manifesto On Gender And Sexuality, Coming Directly To You From The Life Experiences Of A Transsexual Woman, Gender Outlaw Breaks All The Rules And Leaves T...he Reader Forever Changed. 26 Black-and-white Illustrations. First Things First. Transgender Style : Some Fashion Tips -- Sorting Seeds. The Hard Part -- Interlude : Nuts And Bolts -- Naming All The Parts -- Interlude : The Lesbian Thing -- Abandon Your Tedious Search! The Rulebook Has Been Found! -- Claiming Power. Which Outlaws? Or, Who Was That Masked Man? -- Gender Terror, Gender Rage -- Send In The Clowns -- First You Die, And Then You Get Their Attention -- A Gender Interrogatory. The First Question, Or, They Have Those Funny, Staring Eyes -- The Other Questions -- Creating A Third Space. Transsexual Lesbian Playwright Tells All! -- Queer Life/queer Theater -- Hidden : A Gender, A Play In Two Acts -- The Punchline. The Seven Year Itch (what Goes Around, Comes Around). Kate Bornstein. Originally Published: New York : Routledge, 1994, With A New Afterword. Includes The Text Of The Play, Hidden: A Gender. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [251]-253).
My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely
Gender Isn't Just About Male Or Female Anymore--if You Have Any Doubts, Just Turn On Your Television. Rupaul Is As Familiar As Tomato Ketchup With National Radio And Television Shows, And Transgendere...d Folk Are As Common To Talk Shows As Screaming And Yelling. But If The Popularization Of Gender Bending Is Revealing That Male And Female Aren't Enough, Where Are We Supposed To Go From Here? Cultural Theorists Have Written Loads Of Smart But Difficult-to-fathom Texts On Gender, But None Provide A Hands-on, Accessible Guide To Having Your Own Unique Gender. With My Gender Workbook, Kate Bornstein Brings Theory Down To Earth And Provides A Practical Approach To Living With Or Without A Gender. Welcome To My Gender Workbook -- Solving The Gender Puzzle -- Who's On Top? (and Why Are We On The Bottom?) (and Is That Really Such A Bad Place To E?) -- Be All That You Can Be! -- Fuck Your Gender! : Love, Sex, Desire, And Gender -- Just Say No -- Just Say Yes -- Zen And The Art Of Gender Maintenance -- The Playgrounds -- Cautionary Interlude -- This Quiet Revolution -- Okay, Now What? -- Acknowledgments. Kate Bornstein ; With Illustrations By Diane Dimassa. Includes Bibliographical References.
GenderQueer: Voices From Beyond the Sexual Binary
Perhaps More Than Any Other Issue, Gender Identity Has Galvanized The Queer Community In Recent Years. The Questions Go Beyond The Nature Of Male/female To A Yet-to-be-traversed Region That Lies Somew...here Between And Beyond Biologically Determined Gender. In This Groundbreaking Anthology, Three Experts In Gender Studies And Politics Navigate Around Rigid, Societally Imposed Concepts Of Two Genders To Discover And Illuminate The Limitless Possibilities Of Identity. Thirty First-person Accounts Of Gender Construction, Exploration, And Questioning Provide A Groundwork For Cultural Discussion, Political Action, And Even Greater Possibilities Of Autonomous Gender Choices. Noted Scholar Joan Nestle Is Joined By Internationally Prominent Gender Warrior Riki Anne Wilchins And Historian Clare Howell To Provide A Societal, Cultural, And Political Exploration Of Gender Identity.--publisher Description. Genders On My Mind / Joan Nestle -- A Continuous Nonverbal Communication / Riki Wilchins -- Stories / Clare Howell -- It's Your Gender / Riki Wilchins -- Stupid / Riki Wilchins -- Queerer Bodies / Riki Wilchins -- Changing The Subject / Riki Wilchins -- Deconstructing Trans / Riki Wilchins -- Queens In Exile: The Forgotten Ones / Sylvia Rivera -- Vision, Freaks, Scars / Aaron Link -- Scars / Hilda Raz -- A Conversation With Jt Leroy -- Dutch / Debbie Fraker -- Vignettes / Charlotte -- Loving Outside Simple Lines / Sonya Bolus -- World's Youngest / Mollie Biewald -- Packing A Rod / Allen James -- Not As If You Felt That Way / Allen James -- A Life / Shirle -- Liminal / Peggy Munson -- Do Your Ears? / Peggy Munson -- Do It On The Dotted Line / Raven Kaldera -- Fading To Pink / Robin Maltz -- Passing Realities / Allie Lie -- Who Knows What Evil Lurks? / Lucas Dzmura -- My Woman Poppa / Joan Nestle -- A Femme's Diary / Joan Nestle -- I Walked Into The Oaks Club / Chino Lee Chung -- Transie / Ethan Zimmerman -- Story Of A Preadolescent Drag King / L. Mauer -- Two Women / Loree Cook-daniels -- Affronting Reason / Cheryl Chase -- A Safe Trip Home / Dawn Dougherty -- Would I Dare? There. Penis Envy / Toni Amato -- Wanting Men / Lionhart -- Twenty Passings / Stacey Montgomery -- Courage From Necessity / Mr. Barb Greve -- Whose Body Is This Anyway? / C. Jacob Hale -- Performing Translesbian / Nancy Nangeroni And Gordene Mackenzie -- Disorderly Fashion / Wally Baird -- This Butch Body / Kristen Walker -- Be A Man / Susan Wright -- The A Train / Carrie Davis -- Rules / Carrie Davis -- Transy House / Rusty Mae Moore -- The Gender Cops Work Overtime / Gina Reiss -- Epilogue: Gender Rights Are Human Rights / Riki Wilchins. Edited By Joan Nestle, Clare Howell, And Riki Wilchins. Includes Bibliographical References.
Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer
In This Introduction To The Work Of Postmodern Sex And Gender Theorists, Gender Activist Riki Wilchins Explains The Key Ideas That Have Shaped Contemporary Sex And Gender Studies. Using Straightforwar...d Prose And Concrete Examples From Lgbt Politics - As Well As Her Own Life - Wilchins Makes Thinkers Like Derrida, Foucault, And Judith Butler Easily Accessible To Students, Activists, And Others Who Are Interested In Some Of The Most Compelling And Divisive Issues Of The Last 100 Years. Additionally, Wilchins Reports On The Ways Queer Youths Today Are Using The Tools Of Queer Theory And Gender Theory To Reshape Their World. This Book Connects Postmodern Theory To Political Passion, Personal Experience, And The Patterns Of Everyday Life.--jacket. Women's Rights -- Gay Rights -- Transgender Rights -- Derrida And The Politics Of Meaning -- Homosexuality : Foucault And The Politics Of Self -- Foucault And The Disciplinary Society -- All Together Now : Intersex Infants And Igm -- Can Sex Have Opposites? -- Postmodernism And Its Discontents -- Race-critical Thought And Postmodernism's 'second Wave' -- Butler And The Problem Of Identity -- Genderpac And Gender Rights. Riki Wilchins. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 159-160) And Index.
The Social Justice Advocate's Handbook: A Guide to Gender
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Gender and the Politics of History
Winner, in the original edition, of the 1989 Joan Kelly Prize of the American Historical Association, this landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a trenchant critique of women's history a...nd gender inequality. Exploring topics ranging from language and gender to the politics of work and family, Gender and the Politics of History is a crucial interrogation of the uses of gender as a tool for cultural and historical analysis. The revised edition -- in addition to providing a new generation of readers with access to a classic text in feminist theory and history -- reassesses the book's fundamental topic: the category of gender. In provocatively arguing that gender no longer serves to destabilize our understanding of sexual difference, the new preface and new chapter open a critical dialogue with the original book. Columbia University Press Awarded the American Historical Association's Joan Kelly Memorial Prize; Hans Sigrist Award for Outstanding Research in Gender Studies;
Race, Class, & Gender: An Anthology
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The Transgender Studies Reader
although The Term Transgender Itself Has Achieved Familiarity Only Within The Past Decade, This Authoritative Collection Of Articles Demonstrates That The Study Of Behaviors, Bodies, And Subjective Id...entities Which Contest Common Eurocentric Notions Of Gender Has A History Stretching Back At Least To The Early 20th Century.transgender Studies Is The Latest Area Of Academic Inquiry To Grow Out Of The Exciting Nexus Of Queer Theory, Feminist Studies, And The History Of Sexuality. Because Transpeople Challenge Our Most Fundamental Assumptions About The Relationship Between Bodies, Desire, And Identity, The Field Is Both Fascinating And Contentious. the Transgender Studies Reader puts Between Two Covers Fifty Influential Texts With New Introductions By The Editors That, Taken Together, Document The Evolution Of Transgender Studies In The English-speaking World. By Bringing Together The Voices And Experience Of Transgender Individuals, Doctors, Psychologists, And Academically-based Theorists, This Volume Will Be A Foundational Text For The Transgender Community, Transgender Studies, And Related Queer Theory.unsung Heroes: Reading Transgender Subjectivities In Hong Kong Action Cinema. Copyright (c) 2004-5 By Helen Hok-sze Leung. Reprinted From masculinities And Hong Kong Cinema. Eds. Laikwan Pang And Day Wong. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005. 81-98.
The Gendered Society
Thoroughly updated and revised, the third edition of The Gendered Society explores current thinking about gender, both inside academia and in our everyday lives. Michael S. Kimmel challenges the claim... that gender is limited to women's experiences—his compelling and balanced study of gender includes both masculine and feminine perspectives. Part 1 examines the latest work in biology, anthropology, psychology, and sociology; Part 2 provides an original analysis of the gendered worlds of family, education, and work; and Part 3 explores gender interactions, including friendship and love, sexuality, and violence. Kimmel makes three bold and persuasive statements about gender. First, he demonstrates that gender differences are often extremely exaggerated; in fact, he argues that men and women have much more in common than we think they do. Kimmel also challenges the pop psychologists who suggest that gender difference is the cause of inequality between the sexes; instead, he reveals that the reverse is true—gender inequality itself is the cause of the differences between men and women. Finally, he illustrates that gender is not merely an element of individual identity, but a socially constructed institutional phenomenon. A new chapter on media examines the portrayal of gender in one of the most powerful—and provocative—social institutions. Of particular interest to students, Kimmel's analysis of this dynamic, image-driven industry makes the study of gender relevant in an immediate and tangible way. Essential reading for both students and scholars, The Gendered Society is an authoritative, incisive, and lively statement about contemporary gender relations from one of the country's foremost thinkers on the subject. Kimmel's companion text, The Gendered Society Reader, Third Edition (OUP, 2008), provides a perfect complement for classroom use.
