After Identity Rethinking Race, Sex, and Gender

Name: After Identity Rethinking Race, Sex, and Gender
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ISBN: 9780521709293

ISBN-10: 0521709296

ISBN-13: 9780521709293

Edition: 2007

Authors: Georgia Warnke

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Social and political theorists have traced in detail how individuals come to possess gender, sex and racial identities. This book examines the nature of these identities. Georgia Warnke argues that identities, in general, are interpretations and, as such, have more in common with textual understanding than we commonly acknowledge. A racial, sexed or gendered understanding of who we and others are is neither exhaustive of the meanings we can be said to have nor uniquely correct. We are neither always, or only, black or white, men or women or males or females. Rather, all identities have a restricted scope and can lead to injustices and contradictions when they are employed beyond that scope.…

Book details

List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/10/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Table of cases


Introduction: reading individuals



The tragedy of David Reimer



Racial identification and identity



Race and interpretation



Sex and science



Rethinking sex and gender identities



Marriage, the military, and identity



Hermeneutics and the politics of identity


Conclusion


Index