Why Gender?
£32.00
GBPWhy is a focus on gender so important for interpreting the world in which we live? Sixteen world-famous scholars have been brought together to address this question from their respective fields: Political Theory, Philosophy, Medical Anthropology, Law, Geography, Islamic Studies, Cultural Studies, Philosophy of Science, Literature, Psychoanalysis, History of Art, Education and Economics. The resulting volume covers an extraordinary array of contexts, ranging from rethinking trans* bodies, to traumatized tribal communities, to sexualized violence, to assisted reproductive technologies, to the implications of epigenetics for understanding gender, and yet they are all connected by their focus on the importance of gender as a category of analysis. The publication of this volume celebrates the anniversary of the launch of the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge, and features contributions from past and future Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professors to the University.
- Provides multidisciplinary accounts on the importance of gender scholarship for understanding the world in which we live
- The breadth of disciplinary backgrounds illustrates the ways in which gender analysis is key to a huge number of fields and are presented here in a coherent framework
- Collects the writings of world-famous scholars on the subject, as never before
Product details
October 2021Paperback
9781108970365
320 pages
228 × 151 × 24 mm
0.61kg
Available
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Why Gender? Jude Browne
- 1. Gender in Translation: Beyond Monolingualism Judith Butler
- 2. Gender and The Queer/Trans* Undercommons Jack Halberstam
- 3. Gender and the End of Biological Determinism John Dupré
- 4. Gender, Sexuality, Race and Colonialism Sandra Harding
- 5. Posthuman Feminism and Gender Methodology Rosi Braidotti
- 6. Gender, Sperm Troubles and Assisted Reproductive Technologies Marcia C. Inhorn
- 7. Gender, Capital and Care Nancy Fraser
- 8. Aspiration Management: Gender, Race, Class and the Child as Waste Cindi Katz
- 9. Gender, Race and American National Identity: The First Black First Family Patricia Hill Collins
- 10. Gender and the Collective Bina Agarwal
- 11. Willfulness, Feminism and the Gendering of Will Sara Ahmed
- 12. Gender and Emigré Political Thought: Hannah Arendt and Judith Shklar Seyla Benhabib
- 13. Feminism and the Abomination of Violence: Gender Thought and Unthought Jacqueline Rose
- 14. Trafficking, Prostitution and Inequality: The Centrality of Gender Catharine MacKinnon
- 15. Gender, Revenge, Mutation, and War Akbar Ahmed
- 16. Bed Peace and Gender Abnorms Mignon Nixon.
