Description |
1 online resource (x, 230 pages) |
Series |
Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences |
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Genders and sexualities in the social sciences.
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Contents |
1. The Resilience of Bigenderism -- 2. Diagnosing and Transcending Sexual Difference -- 3. Gender Justice -- 4. Philosophical Arguments for Post-Gender Ontological Ethics -- 5. Queer Futures and Queer Ethics: Sketching Inexhaustibly Reciprocal Androgyny -- 6. The Politics of Implementing Post-Gender Ethics: Beyond Idealism / Realism -- 7. The Fully Armed Self: Cultivating Post-Gender Subjects -- 8. Ethical Post-Gender Sexual Relationships and Communities -- Conclusion: Utopian Realism |
Summary |
There is increasing resistance to gendering in contemporary society, seen in gender-neutral childrearing and pronouns, expansion of legal sex categories and intersex rights, and queer and genderqueer movements. This timely book considers the utopian question of whether, and how, gender could be eradicated and how we might understand identity and relationships without it. It considers the implications of arguments from 'new materialism' about the malleability of biological sex, and of queer theory and gender deconstruction, for social change and political practice. The original theoretical and practical argument is for an androgynous, reciprocal ethic or way of being in the world that transcends both sex/gender and some of the debates plaguing gender studies. It takes inspiration from real-world queer and post-gender practices, for example by being written using gender-neutral pronouns, and also considers the reality of implementing such an ethic in a highly gendered world, especially in cross-cultural contexts |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-227) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Queer theory.
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Sex role.
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sex role.
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Gender studies, gender groups.
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Social theory.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Queer theory
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Sex role
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Queer-Theorie
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Geschlechterforschung
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Ethik
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Gender studies, gender groups.
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Social theory.
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Society.
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781137321626 |
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1137321628 |
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9781137321619 |
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113732161X |
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