Narrow your search
Listing 1 - 10 of 324 << page
of 33
>>
Sort by

Book
Beyond the binary : thinking about sex and gender
Author:
ISBN: 9781554815289 Year: 2023 Publisher: Peterborough : Broadview Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

How are sex and gender related? Are they the same thing? What exactly is gender? How many genders are there? What is the science on all of this? Is gender a product of nature, nurture, or both? This book introduces readers to fundamental questions about sex and gender categories as they’ve been considered across the centuries and through a wide array of disciplines and perspectives. From the Bible to Darwin, from Enlightenment thinkers to contemporary trans philosophers, Beyond the Binary offers an accessible survey of the wide range of views about sex and gender. This revised and expanded edition uses updated terminology and diagnostic criteria and offers new material with a greater focus on trans, Indigenous, racialized, and subaltern thinkers. It includes useful discussion questions and further reading recommendations at the end of each chapter, as well as an extensive glossary of terms.

You just don't understand : women and men in conversation
Author:
ISBN: 1853814717 Year: 1992 Publisher: London : Virago,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Why is it that some women and men seem to talk at cross purposes? Some have claimed that conversations are the forum of male power games, but the author suggests that jockeying for attention is not the whole story and that even when domination is the result, it is not always the intention. She shows how many frictions may arise because girls and boys grow up in essentially different cultures. Where women use language to seek confirmation, make connections and reinforce intimacies, men use it to protect their independence and negotiate status. The result is that conversation becomes a cross-cultural communication, fraught with genuine confusion. Using examples and anecdotes, this book offers an approach to banishing the misunderstandings that confuse our relationships.

Postcolonial, queer : theoretical intersections
Author:
ISBN: 9780791450925 Year: 2001 Publisher: New York : State University of new York Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Uses postcolonial theory to critique the globalization of gay culture."John Hawley's Postcolonial, Queer is one of the best handbooks examining the intersection of postcolonial and queer that I have seen. It reprints some classic papers, such as Joseph Boone's essay on the homoerotics of Orientalism (from the PMLA) and includes a series of brilliant new essays running the gamut from close literary analysis of North African novels to complex cultural readings of queer politics. A solid and useful volume." -- Sander L. Gilman, The University of Illinois at ChicagoThese thirteen essays address possible ramifications arising from the globalization of western notions of gay and lesbian identities. Examining postcolonial literature, economics, and psychology from a "queer" perspective leads to self-reflexive consideration of the canonization of postcolonial studies and queer theory in western academe."Finally, the staging of an encounter between queer and postcolonial studies where neither term turns out to be quite distinct from the other and where a new mapping of fields becomes possible. The essays probe the possibility of thinking sexuality in terms of social normativity and globalization, making breakthroughs in several directions at once: history, sociology, literature, psychology. This is the kind of scholarship most needed and most productive: it opens up the question of an encounter through several sites in provocative ways without deciding the final form of the relationship between postcolonial, queer." -- Judith Butler, University of California at Berkeley.


Dissertation
Gender, ecocriticism and dystopia : a commented translation of "This other Eden" by Ben Elton

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
Gender and eurocentrism
Authors: ---
ISBN: 9783515114615 Year: 2016 Publisher: Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

What is European in the history of Europe? In order to answer this question, Wolfgang Schmale uses two approaches. Firstly, he develops the concept of a performative speech act into what he defines as a collective historical speech act. Secondly, he looks at European history from a gender point of view. Europe was generally thought to be male – considering the former Republic of Letters' definition of Europe as a male civilization. However, the 18th-century's performative speech act presently loses its binding force as European civilization develops from 'male' to diversity and plurality, yet right wing parties try to defend and to repeat the historical performative speech act by ignoring the fundamental switch in European civilization. This will only produce violent conflicts. This book considers developments and consequences in a post-performative epoch.

Gender : a Caribbean multi-disciplinary perspective
Authors: --- ---
ISBN: 9768100680 0852552505 Year: 1997 Publisher: Kingston : Ian Randle Publishers in association with The Center for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies and The Commonwealth of Learning,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
Women and emergencies
Authors: ---
ISBN: 0855982667 Year: 1994 Volume: 4 Publisher: Oxford : Oxfam,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
On gender performance
Authors: ---
ISBN: 9783981910827 Year: 2020 Publisher: Berlin : Floating Opera Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Une conversation sur la performance, le genre et le cinéma dans l'œuvre subversive de Brice Dellsperger. Dans cet entretien au long cours, qui s'inscrit dans les discussions actuelles sur le (post-)genre, Brice Dellsperger décrit la sexualité et l'identité (sexuelle) comme les produits d'une construction culturelle éclairée par les technologies audiovisuelles. Le cinéma, la vidéo et l'internet ne dépeignent pas une sexualité préexistante, mais en donnent une image et son cadre normatif. Cet entretien avec Brice Dellsperger met en lumière la manière dont l'artiste, à partir de la parodie et du double, sape les scénarios identitaires politiques existants, afin de développer de nouvelles stratégies artistiques de subjectivation.


Book
Genre trouble and extreme cinema : film theory at the fringes of contemporary art cinema
Author:
ISBN: 9783319658933 Year: 2017 Publisher: London : Palgave Macmillan

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

This volume re-evaluates theories of genre and spectatorship in light of a critic-defined tendency in recent art cinema, coined ‘extreme cinema’. In Genre Trouble and Extreme Cinema, Bordun argues that the films of Mexican director Carlos Reygadas and French director Catherine Breillat expand generic classifications. Bordun contends that their films make it apparent that genre is not established prior to the viewing of a work but is recollected and assembled by spectators in ways that matter for them in both personal and experiential terms. The author deploys contemporary film theories on the senses, both phenomenological and affect theory, and partakes in close readings of the films’ forms and narratives. The book thus adds to the present literature on extreme cinema and film theory, yet sets itself apart by fully deploying genre theory alongside the methodological and stylistic approaches of Stanley Cavell, Vivian Sobchack, Laura U. Marks, and Eugenie Brinkema.


Book
Questioning identity : gender, class, ethnicity
Author:
Year: 2004 Publisher: London New York : Routledge,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Our world is an increasingly unstable place, but current changes offer new opportunities as well as new challenges. This key volume provides an accessible exploration of identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and as a key concept in social science. Drawing on work from a range of disciplines and focusing on the key social divisions of gender, class and nation, it shows how these challenges and opportunities work out in practice. What is really happening when people either individually or in groups identify with particular definitions of themselves or strike out to take up new identities? Do gender, class and ethnicity offer some stability and even certainty about who we are, or are they to be seen as limitations on our freedom to choose our own identities? Are we in the end bound by the social constraints and inequalities with which we started out? This key text is essential reading for all students starting out in the social sciences and for anyone with an interest in the dilemmas of identity-making in contemporary society.

Listing 1 - 10 of 324 << page
of 33
>>
Sort by