The question of gender : Joan W. Scott's critical feminism / edited by Judith Butler and Elizabeth Weed.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Butler, Judith, 1956-

Weed, Elizabeth, 1940-

Series:

21st Century studies ; v. 4.

21st century studies ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role.

Feminist theory.

Feminism.

Women--History.

Women.

History.

Scott, Joan Wallach.

Physical Description:

330 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2011]

Summary:

A generation after the publication of Joan W. Scott's influential essay, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis," this volume explores the current uses of the term-and the ongoing influence of Scott's agenda-setting work in history and other disciplines. How has the study of gender, independently or in conjunction with other axes of difference-such as race, class, and sexuality-inflected existing fields of study and created new ones? To what extent has this concept modified or been modified by related paradigms such as women's and queer studies? With what discursive politics does the term engage, and with what effects? In what settings, and through what kinds of operations and transformations, can gender remain a useful category in the twenty-first century? Leading scholars from history, philosophy, literature, art history, and other fields examine how gender has translated into their own disciplinary perspectives. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Reading Joan Wallach Scott

1 Speaking Up, Talking Back: Joan Scott's Critical Feminism / Judith Butler Butler, Judith 11

Part 2 The Case of History

2 Language, Experience, and Identity: Joan W. Scott's Theoretical Challenge to Historical Studies / Miguel A. Cabrera Cabrera, Miguel A. 31

3 Out of Their Orbit: Celebrities and Eccentrics in Nineteenth-Century France / Mary Louise Roberts Roberts, Mary Louise 50

4 Historically Speaking: Gender and Citizenship in Colonial India / Mrinalini Sinha Sinha, Mrinalini 80

5 Gender and the Figure of the "Moderate Muslim": Feminism in the Twenty-First Century / Elora Shehabuddin Shehabuddin, Elora 102

6 A Double-Edged Sword: Sexual Democracy, Gender Norms, and Racialized Rhetoric / Éric Fassin Fassin, Éric 143

Part 3 Seeing the Question

7 Seeing Beyond the Norm: Interpreting Gender in the Visual Arts / Mary D. Sheriff Sheriff, Mary D. 161

8 Unlikely Couplings: The Gendering of Print Technology in the French Fin-de-Siècle / Janis Bergman-Carton Bergman-Carton, Janis 187

9 Screening the Avant-Garde Face / Mary Ann Doane Doane, Mary Ann 206

Part 4 Body and Sexuality in Question

10 The Sexual Schema: Transposition and Transgenderism in Phenomenology of Perception / Gayle Salamon Salamon, Gayle 233

11 Foucault and Feminism's Prodigal Children / Lynne Huffer Huffer, Lynne 255

12 From the "Useful" to the "Impossible" in the Work of Joan W. Scott / Elizabeth Weed Weed, Elizabeth 287.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253356369

0253356369

9780253223241

0253223245

OCLC:

670482480