ISBN:
9781137061850
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (287 pages)
Serie:
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Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.42009999999999
Schlagwort(e):
Feminist theory
;
Kulturtheorie
;
Literaturtheorie
;
Geschlechterforschung
;
Geschlechterforschung
;
Literaturtheorie
;
Geschlechterforschung
;
Kulturtheorie
Kurzfassung:
This book offers a clear introductory overview of the concept of gender. It places gender in its historical contexts and traces its development from the Enlightenment to the present, before moving on to the evolution of the concept of gender from within the various stances of feminist criticism, and recent developments in queer theory and post-feminism. Close analysis of key literary texts, including Frankenstein, Paradise Lost and A Midsummer Night's Dream, shows how specific styles of literature enable reflection on gender
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Cover -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Gender before Modernity -- Gender and polarity -- Nature/culture: Sex/gender -- What sort of difference is gender difference? -- Essence and gender -- The gender of souls -- Matter and the realisation of gender -- Gender without sex -- A Midsummer Night's Dream -- 2. Gender as Form and the Masculinity of Reason -- The gender of form and reason -- Deconstruction -- Binaries of reason and gender: Genevieve Lloyd -- Paradise Lost -- 3. Modernity and the Materiality of Gender -- Sex and matter: Modern empiricism and liberalism -- Third-wave feminism: Reality and essence -- Subjectivity, ideas and experience -- Man and modern subjectivity -- Modern science and mathematics -- Patriarchy -- Patriarchy and the sexual contract: Carole Pateman -- 4. Sex without Gender -- First-wave feminism and the sex/gender distinction -- Enlightenment feminism -- Marriage and gender harmony -- Second-wave feminism and difference -- Psychoanalytic feminism -- The Oedipal production of gender -- 5. Beyond Sex and Gender -- Third-wave feminism -- Difference before sex and gender -- Lacan and the subject of signification -- Levi-Strauss and the exchange of women -- 6. Sexual Difference and Embodiment -- Lacan, negativity and desire -- The body -- Luce Irigaray and the positive feminine -- 7. Sexuality and Queer Theory -- Michel Foucault and the history of sexuality -- Performativity -- Volatile bodies -- Queer theory and the critique of gender: Butler, Sedgwick, Edelman and Bersani -- Moira Gatens and the critique of gender -- Conclusion: Reading Gender -- First-wave feminist and humanist reading -- Second-wave or radical feminist readings -- Third-wave feminist readings -- Reading gender -- Annotated Bibliography -- Bibliography -- Index
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