ISBN:
9781317958413
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (209 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Weston, Kath Gender in Real Time : Power and Transience in a Visual Age
DDC:
305.3
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PREFACE NOW BOARDING: THE STARSHIP GENDER -- CHAPTER ONE WHAT THE CAT DRAGGED IN: GENDER STUDIES TODAY-AN ELEGY AND INTRODUCTION -- Liberation When?: The First Paradox -- Vision Just in Time: The Second Paradox -- Surviving Representation: The Third Paradox -- Matters Matériel -- CHAPTER TWO UNSEXED: A ZERO CONCEPT FOR GENDER STUDIES -- All That Is Fleeting Compacts -- Sunya, Sifr, Zero -- The Call of the Third -- Deciphering -- Vacating the Void -- CHAPTER THREE DO CLOTHES MAKE THE WOMAN?: PERFORMING IN AND OUT OF INDUSTRIAL TIME -- Dance and Stance -- Gender Is as Gender Does? -- Behind the Scenes with Performativity -- A Different Kind of Closet -- Good to Think or Good to Eat? -- Nothing, Repeat, Nothing -- CHAPTER FOUR THE GHOSTS OF GENDER PAST: TIME CLAIMS, MEMORY, AND MODERNITY -- Forgetting: Mommy Nearest -- Remembering: Darwin's Bodies at the Bar -- Memory's Crucible, Time's Archer -- CHAPTER FIVE THE GLOBAL ECONOMY NEXT TIME: WHEN GENDERS ARE NOT ENOUGH -- A Meditation on Change -- Making Capitalism Fast: The Old Toolkit -- Gender in Real Time -- The Smirk of the Now -- Notes -- References -- Index
