What gender is, what gender does / Judith Roof.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roof, Judith, 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gender identity.

Sex role.

Sex differences (Psychology).

Physical Description:

ix, 280 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]

Summary:

What Gender Is, What Gender Does provides a forceful new paradigm for considering genders. With depth and insight, Judith Roof argues that genders are much more than binary. And they are constantly morphing: they are conscious and unconscious, simultaneously conventional and idiosyncratic. At any moment, more than one gender dynamic is at work in any individual. For Roof, genders are interacting sets of operations that link individual desires to multiple, shifting manifestations of sociocultural positioning and self-presentation. Thus, "to gender" is to signal, mask, suggest, mislead, and simplify the uncontainable chaos of desires characteristic of subjects but roundly contained by society. Drawing illustrative material from contemporary popular culture productions, including My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Spider-man, Shrek, Shallow Hal, Sex and the City, Bridesmaids, Bond films, and "bromance" movies, What Gender Is, What Gender Does demonstrates how the persistent conflation of gender and sexual difference is, on the one hand, a simple taxonomic urge and, on the other, a cover that offers the security of identity in place of the frustrations and fears of the real asymmetries of personal power dynamics. Book jacket.

Contents:

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Making over : metamorphosis, taxonomy, vantage

Prosopopeias: exceeding kind

Temporality still

Social algebras

Scopic folding, layered economies

The fixer

Gender is as gender does : on the rebound

Spurious displays

Conclusion

Notes

Filmography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

ISBN:

9780816698578

0816698570

9780816698585

0816698589

OCLC:

923665196