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Gender Studies Terms and Debates

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ISBN-10: 0333776127

ISBN-13: 9780333776124

Edition: 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Anne Cranny-Francis, Wendy Waring, Pam Stavropoulos, Joan Kirkby, Cranny-Francis Anne

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Gender Studies provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to current debates on gender, exploring the major theorists whose work has produced and inspired feminist analysis. Major contributions to the gender debates such as Freudian theory, queer theory, masculinity theory and materialist feminism are introduced, and their impact is explored in a variety of contexts including the workplace, the home, the body and visual culture. The authors explore the meaning and history of many common terms used in relation to gender and sexuality, thus revealing the complex sexing and gendering practices in our society. By clarifying and explaining the concepts of gender analysis and by…    
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List price: $58.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 11/28/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 276
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

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Preface
Ways of Talking
Gender
Sex
Sexuality
The Modern Subject
Institution
Patriarchy
Heterosexuality
Homosexual
Homosexuality
Lesbian
Gay
Identity
Experience
Summary
Recommended Reading
Exercises
Ways of Thinking
Models of Subjectivity
The Linguistic Subject
Gender and Subjectivity
Psychoanalysis and Gender
More Than One Freud
Rethinking Gender: Feminisms and Identity
The Question of Identity Politics
Difference
Psychoanalysis and the Other
The Other Within
Lacan's 'Lack' and the Power of the Phallus
Critiques of 'The Phallus'
Julia Kristeva and Abjection
Difference and Power
Partial Identities and Provisional Positions
Feminist Standpoint Theory
Fractured Identities
Cyborg Feminism
Queer (Non) Identities
Bisexual Identities
Masculine Identities: The Men's Movement and Men's Studies
Embodiment
Summary
Recommended Reading
Exercises
Ways of Reading
Text
Texts, Bodies and Identity
Discourse
Analysing Gendered Discourse
Texts as Engendering Practices
Analysing Textual Practice
Genre
Complexity and Disjunction
Complex and Diverse Readers
Ways of Reading
Mainstream or Compliant Reading
Resistant Reading
Resisting the Text
Rewriting the Text
Rewriting the Reading
Tactical Reading or 'Textual Poaching'
Summary
Recommended Reading
Exercises
Ways of Seeing
Stereotypes
Inequalities of Power and Access
Examples of Stereotypes
Stereotypes in Conflict
The Ormond College Case
The Hill/Thomas Case
Resisting Stereotypes
Stereotype Reversal
Identification
Narcissism
The Other in the Self
Introjection and Projection
Lacan and the Mirror Stage
Fashion Photography and Sexuality
Julia Kristeva and the Semiotic
Going to the Movies
The Gaze
Voyeurism, Sadism and Fetishism
Sexual Difference and Visual Pleasure
Feminism and Film-making
The Woman as Spectator
Femininity and Masculinity as Masquerade
Challenging the Gendered Gaze: Transvestism to Posttranssexualism
Queering the Gaze
Summary
Recommended Reading
Exercises
Ways of Being
Introduction
Bodies of Knowledge
Who Knows ...?
The Gendered Learner
Feminist Critiques of the Disembodied Knower
Doctored Bodies
Biopower: Control of the Body, Control of the Species
The Deployment of Sexuality
Challenging Reproductive Technologies
Cocaine Mothers and Crack Babies
New Bodies
Fashioning Bodies
Femininity, Masculinity and Fashion
Born to Shop!
The Freedom Bin
Fashions of the Body
Plastic Bodies
The Body of the Law
The Hysterical Body
Gendered Bodies in Space
Marked Bodies
Hybrid Bodies
Summary
Recommended Reading
Exercises
Ways of Living
Where the Structural and the Psychic Meet: Gendered Labour and the Politics of Work
Home is Where the Heart Is?: The Gendered Politics of Intimacy
Sexual Space, Citizenship and Democracy
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Negotiation of Gender Duality in Young Children
Summary
Recommended Reading
Exercises
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index