Why gender? / edited by Jude Browne, University of Cambridge.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Browne, Jude, 1970- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gender identity.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 384 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Why 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.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

A Prefatory Note

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Why Gender?

Chapter 1 Gender in Translation: Beyond Monolingualism

Chapter 2 Gender and the Queer/Trans* Undercommons

Chapter 3 Gender and the End of Biological Determinism

Chapter 4 Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Colonialism

Chapter 5 Posthuman Feminism and Gender Methodology

Chapter 6 Gender, Sperm Troubles, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies

Chapter 7 Gender, Capital, and Care

Chapter 8 Aspiration Management: Gender, Race, Class, and the Child as Waste

Chapter 9 Gender, Race and American National Identity: The First Black First Family

Chapter 10 Gender and the Collective

Chapter 11 Willfulness, Feminism, and the Gendering of Will

Chapter 12 Gender and Emigré Political Thought: Hannah Arendt and Judith Shklar

Chapter 13 Feminism and the Abomination of Violence: Gender Thought and Unthought

Chapter 14 Trafficking, Prostitution, and Inequality: The Centrality of Gender

Chapter 15 Gender, Revenge, Mutation, and War

Chapter 16 Bed Peace and Gender Abnorms

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Oct 2021).

ISBN:

9781108980548 (electronic book)

9781108988803

1108988806

9781108980548

1108980546

OCLC:

1492991536