The biopolitics of gender / Jemima Repo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Repo, Jemima, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role.

Power (Social sciences).

Feminism.

Neoliberalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 218 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book introduces a new theoretical and methodological approach to gender. The author conducts a genealogy of gender similar to Foucault's mid-twentieth century genealogy of sexuality and argues that gender is an apparatus of biopower invented in the postwar period in order to regulate the reproduction of capital and population. This book demonstrates how gender forges biopolitical connections between sexology, psychiatry, feminism, demography, economics, and public policy. The author reconsiders the emancipatory potential of the idea of gender for feminist theory and politics today.

Contents:

Introduction: Gender, Genealogy, Biopolitics

1.The Birth of Gender: Social Control, Hermaphroditism, and the New Postwar Sexual Apparatus

2.The Sex/Gender Split, Transsexualism, and the Psychoanalytic Engineering of Capitalist Life

3.Feminist Deployments of Gender

4.The Demographic Problematization of Gender

5.Gender Equality as Neoliberal Governmentality

6.Feminism and Biopolitics: Complicities and Countermovements

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-049264-3

0-19-025693-1

0-19-025692-3