Before and After Gender Sexual Mythologies of Everyday Life / Sarah Franklin, Marilyn Strathern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strathern, Marilyn, author.

Contributor:

Franklin, Sarah, 1960- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (363 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Chicago, IL USA : HAU Books, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn Strathern's Before and After Gender was intended as a widely accessible analysis of gender as a powerful cultural code and sex as a defining mythology. But when the series for which it was written unexpectedly folded, the manuscript went into storage, where it remained for more than four decades. This book finally brings it to light, giving the long-lost feminist workâ€"accompanied here by an afterword from Judith Butlerâ€"an overdue spot in feminist history. Strathern incisively engages some of the leading feminist thinkers of the time. Building with characteristic precision toward a bold conclusion in which she argues that we underestimate the materializing grammars of sex and gender at our own peril, she offers a powerful challenge to the intransigent mythologies of sex that still plague contemporary society. The result is a sweeping display of Strathern's vivid critical thought.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Seductive Symbol 5

Chapter 2 Stereotypes 33

Chapter 3 Families and Housewives 63

Chapter 4 The World Outside 97

Chapter 5 Dependency 129

Chapter 6 Sex and the Concept of the Person 175

Chapter 7 Sex and the Social Order 245.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101662

ISBN:

9780986132537