Why Gender?
Cambridge University Press, 10/7/2021
EAN 9781108833370, ISBN10: 1108833373
Hardcover, 320 pages, 23.5 x 15.9 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
Why is a focus on gender so important for interpreting the world in which we live? Sixteen world-famous scholars have been brought together to address this question from their respective fields: Political Theory, Philosophy, Medical Anthropology, Law, Geography, Islamic Studies, Cultural Studies, Philosophy of Science, Literature, Psychoanalysis, History of Art, Education and Economics. The resulting volume covers an extraordinary array of contexts, ranging from rethinking trans* bodies, to traumatized tribal communities, to sexualized violence, to assisted reproductive technologies, to the implications of epigenetics for understanding gender, and yet they are all connected by their focus on the importance of gender as a category of analysis. The publication of this volume celebrates the anniversary of the launch of the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge, and features contributions from past and future Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professors to the University.
Introduction
Why Gender? Jude Browne
1. Gender in Translation
Beyond Monolingualism Judith Butler
2. Gender and The Queer/Trans* Undercommons Jack Halberstam
3. Gender and the End of Biological Determinism John Dupré
4. Gender, Sexuality, Race and Colonialism Sandra Harding
5. Posthuman Feminism and Gender Methodology Rosi Braidotti
6. Gender, Sperm Troubles and Assisted Reproductive Technologies Marcia C. Inhorn
7. Gender, Capital and Care Nancy Fraser
8. Aspiration Management
Gender, Race, Class and the Child as Waste Cindi Katz
9. Gender, Race and American National Identity
The First Black First Family Patricia Hill Collins
10. Gender and the Collective Bina Agarwal
11. Willfulness, Feminism and the Gendering of Will Sara Ahmed
12. Gender and Emigré Political Thought
Hannah Arendt and Judith Shklar Seyla Benhabib
13. Feminism and the Abomination of Violence
Gender Thought and Unthought Jacqueline Rose
14. Trafficking, Prostitution and Inequality
The Centrality of Gender Catharine MacKinnon
15. Gender, Revenge, Mutation, and War Akbar Ahmed
16. Bed Peace and Gender Abnorms Mignon Nixon.