Beyond Sex and GenderSAGE, 21.05.2002 - 258 Seiten `This book has proved invaluable for my sex-gender paper in social anthropology and I recommend it for anybody studying gender theory. I picked it up quite randomly off a shelf, it was not on any of my reading lists, maybe you also have come across this book by chance, but it really should be recommended reading. Studying at university, trying to labour through books written by theorists such Strathern, Riley and Foucault for example, cause me to long for the relatively straight forward textbooks of A-level. This book is somewhere in between. It is extensive but spends most of its time going through theories on the relationship between sex and gender. The issues it discusses are generally quite complicated. For the subjects I have studied in some capacity before reading this book I find it the perfect level of complexity, condensing, ordering and expanding my knowledge′ - Amazon.co.uk (Gender Studies Student) `Beyond Sex and Gender goes beyond most texts not simply in the range of authors discussed, but also in the way in which it makes a radical departure from the terminology of "sex" and "gender". This is a complex and challenging work, which goes beyond issues of gender to considerations of deeper mysteries of language, embodiment and social understanding. Wendy Cealey Harrison′s treatment of an astonishingly varied range of authors is critical, in the best sense, and generous. The book is dedicated to its co-author, John Hood-Williams who was killed in a road accident in 1999; it is a worthy memorial′ - David H J Morgan, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester The central argument of this book is that the sex/gender distinction is invalid and must be transcended. To this end, the work of Foucault, Connell, Goffman, Garfinkel, Butler, Freud, Derrida, Saussure, Lacquer and Kessler and McKenna is woven into a rich and compelling set of arguments. The sex/gender distinction is attacked for producing a series of irresolvable traps. However much one tries to think one′s way out of the dichotomy, one ends up being suckered back into its imponderables and blind alleys. The book attempts to comprehensively reorientate the field and redefine the terrain. |
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... male and female roles , interests , activities and personalities , wax and wane . The current period , according to Oakley , is typical of one in which the roles and statuses of men and women are changing but , unprecedentedly , it also ...
... male and female behave and are treated in society ? ( ibid . ) The first questions , she suggests , are factual ones , the last is a question of value , and confusion has arisen in the debate over sex differences because they are not ...
... male ' , describing ' masculine ' as ' characteristics ... peculiar to a man or the male sex : mannish of that gender ' . Even the contemporary definition given in the OED allocates the term gender , in Oakley's sense , to a very ...
... male - aggressive behaviour . But Kagan and Moss show conclusively that the change in the female's aggressiveness and the male's passivity is associated with , and therefore probably caused by , specific social factors . ( 1972 : 65 ...
... males and females look different contains within itself not only the capacity but also the necessity of a social ... male ' . The fact that some of these characterizations are used to justify social distinctions whilst others are not ...
Inhalt
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Chapter 4 The Mystery of the Visible | 52 |
Chapter 5 Timely Bodies | 71 |
Chapter 6 Looming outside the Space Station | 93 |
Chapter 7 Truth is Slippery Stuff | 117 |
Chapter 8 Stories for Sexual Difference | 141 |
Chapter 9 The Choreography of Sex | 165 |
Chapter 10 A Melancholy Gender | 190 |
Chapter 11 The Vagaries of Language | 215 |
References | 239 |
Index | 245 |