Theorizing Gender
Theorizing Gender This accessible text aims to give a theoretical overview of approaches to gender. Throughout the book it is recognized that becoming gendered implicates and is implicated by other…
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Theorizing Gender
This accessible text aims to give a theoretical overview of approaches to gender. Throughout the book it is recognized that becoming gendered implicates and is implicated by other aspects of social becoming. The book discusses the major theories concerned with the ways in which we 'become engendered', and explains and evaluates naturalist, psychoanalytic, materialist and post-structuralist accounts.Tensions between these different approaches are acknowledged, but stark polarities are resisted.
Debates between 'queer' approaches to gender and those prioritizing sexual difference are also brought to the fore.Theorizing Gender aims to provide a framework for weaving together The work of Judith Butler is discussed in detail and its importance and limitations spelt out in key chapters on sexuality, the body, transgendering and political agency.