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Author | : Anne Fausto-Sterling |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 621 |
Release | : 2020-06-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1541672909 |
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Now updated with groundbreaking research, this award-winning classic examines the construction of sexual identity in biology, society, and history. Why do some people prefer heterosexual love while others fancy the same sex? Is sexual identity biologically determined or a product of convention? In this brilliant and provocative book, the acclaimed author of Myths of Gender argues that even the most fundamental knowledge about sex is shaped by the culture in which scientific knowledge is produced. Drawing on astonishing real-life cases and a probing analysis of centuries of scientific research, Fausto-Sterling demonstrates how scientists have historically politicized the body. In lively and impassioned prose, she breaks down three key dualisms -- sex/gender, nature/nurture, and real/constructed -- and asserts that individuals born as mixtures of male and female exist as one of five natural human variants and, as such, should not be forced to compromise their differences to fit a flawed societal definition of normality.
Author | : Anne Fausto-Sterling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780465077144 |
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This path-breaking study of gender and sexuality is the first to go beyond the nature/nurture debate to offer an alternate framework for considering questions of sex and sexuality.
Author | : Anne Fausto-Sterling |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0415881455 |
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Anne Fausto-Sterling's Sex/Gender is the only interdisciplinary book for undergraduate courses to explain sex and gender from a biological, social, and cultural perspective.
Author | : Chris Shilling |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0198739036 |
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In this Very Short Introduction Chris Shilling considers the social significance of the human body, and the importance of the body to individual and collective identities. He examines how bodies not only shape but are shaped by the social, cultural, and material contexts in which humans live.
Author | : Thomas Laqueur |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1992-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674543553 |
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History of sex in the West from the ancients to the moderns by describing the developments in reproductive anatomy and physiology.
Author | : Jeanette Winterson |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2013-04-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307763595 |
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The most beguilingly seductive novel to date from the author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. Winterson chronicles the consuming affair between the narrator, who is given neither name nor gender, and the beloved, a complex and confused married woman. “At once a love story and a philosophical meditation.” —New York Times Book Review.
Author | : Shuqin Cui |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2015-10-31 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0824857429 |
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Gendered Bodies introduces readers to women's visual art in contemporary China by examining how the visual process of gendering reshapes understandings of historiography, sexuality, pain, and space. When artists take the body as the subject of female experience and the medium of aesthetic experiment, they reveal a wealth of noncanonical approaches to art. The insertion of women's narratives into Chinese art history rewrites a historiography that has denied legitimacy to the woman artist. The gendering of sexuality reveals that the female body incites pleasure in women themselves, reversing the dynamic from woman as desired object to woman as desiring subject. The gendering of pain demonstrates that for those haunted by the sociopolitical past, the body can articulate traumatic memories and psychological torment. The gendering of space transforms the female body into an emblem of landscape devastation, remaps ruin aesthetics, and extends the politics of gender identity into cyberspace and virtual reality. The work presents a critical review of women's art in contemporary China in relation to art traditions, classical and contemporary. Inscribing the female body into art generates not only visual experimentation, but also interaction between local art/cultural production and global perception. While artists may seek inspiration and exhibition space abroad, they often reject the (Western) label "feminist artist." An extensive analysis of artworks and artists—both well- and little-known—provides readers with discursively persuasive and visually provocative evidence. Gendered Bodies follows an interdisciplinary approach that general readers as well as scholars will find inspired and inspiring.
Author | : Tamar Mayer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2012-10-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1134715994 |
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This book provides a unique social science reading on the construction of nation, gender and sexuality and on the interactions among them. It includes international case studies from Indonesia, Ireland, former Yugoslavia, Liberia, Sri Lanka, Australia, the USA, Turkey, China, India and the Caribbean. The contributors offer both the masculine and feminine perspective, exposing how nations are comprised of sexed bodies, and exploring the gender ironies of nationalism and how sexuality plays a key role in nation building and in sustaining national identity. The contributors conclude that control over access to the benefits of belonging to the nation is invariably gendered; nationalism becomes the language through which sexual control and repression is justified masculine prowess is expressed and exercised. Whilst it is men who claim the prerogatives of nation and nation building it is, for the most part, women who actually accept the obligation of nation and nation building.
Author | : Herbert Warren Wind |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780099747208 |
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Author | : Judith Butler |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2014-09-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134711417 |
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In Bodies That Matter, Judith Butler further develops her distinctive theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most "material" dimensions of sex and sexuality. Deepening the inquiries she began in Gender Trouble, Butler offers an original reformulation of the materiality of bodies, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender. Butler argues that power operates to constrain "sex" from the start, delimiting what counts as a viable sex. She offers a clarification of the notion of "performativity" introduced in Gender Trouble and explores the meaning of a citational politics. The text includes readings of Plato, Irigaray, Lacan, and Freud on the formation of materiality and bodily boundaries; "Paris is Burning," Nella Larsen's "Passing," and short stories by Willa Cather; along with a reconsideration of "performativity" and politics in feminist, queer, and radical democratic theory.