Description: Further DetailsTitle: What Gender Is, What Gender DoesCondition: NewISBN-10: 0816698570EAN: 9780816698578ISBN: 9780816698578Publisher: University of Minnesota PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/01/2016Description: What Gender Is, What Gender Does provides a forceful new paradigm for considering genders. With depth and insight, Judith Roof argues that genders are much more than binary. And they are constantly morphing: they are conscious and unconscious, simultaneously conventional and idiosyncratic. At any moment, more than one gender dynamic is at work in any individual. Roof’s interpretation of genders isn’t content with either biological duality or endlessly open performativity, and what results is a nuanced and surprising representation of gender—an account that captures the complexities of lived experience as well as lived ideology. For Roof, genders are interacting sets of operations that link individual desires to multiple, shifting manifestations of sociocultural positioning and self-presentation. Thus, “to gender” is to signal, mask, suggest, mislead, and simplify the uncontainable chaos of desires characteristic of subjects but roundly contained by society. Drawing illustrative material from contemporary popular culture productions, including My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Spider-Man, Shrek, Shallow Hal, Sex and the City, Bridesmaids, Bond films, and “bromance” movies, What Gender Is, What Gender Does demonstrates how the persistent conflation of gender and sexual difference is, on the one hand, a simple taxonomic urge and, on the other, a cover that offers the security of identity in place of the frustrations and fears of the real asymmetries of personal power dynamics.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmItem Width: 38mmAuthor: Judith RoofGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Gender Sex & RelationshipsRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: What Gender Is, What Gender Does
Title: What Gender Is, What Gender Does
ISBN-10: 0816698570
EAN: 9780816698578
ISBN: 9780816698578
Release Date: 04/01/2016
Release Year: 2016
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Gender Sex & Relationships
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Name: What Gender Is, What Gender Does
Language: English
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Item Height: 1.5 in
Subject: Social, Gender Studies, Popular Culture, Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality)
Publication Year: 2016
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15.9 Oz
Item Length: 8.5 in
Subject Area: Philosophy, Social Science, Psychology
Author: Judith Roof
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Hardcover
