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Theorizing Gender: An Introduction

Theorizing Gender: An Introduction Paperback / softback - 2002

by Rachel Alsop

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Paperback / softback. New. * A clear, accessible overview of the key approaches in gender theory * Includes detailed discussion of key figures such as Judith Butler * Highlights recent debates on a queera accounts of gender * Provides a framework for weaving together what are often viewed as opposing directions of thought.
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  • Title Theorizing Gender: An Introduction
  • Author Rachel Alsop
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition New
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Polity Press, Cambridge
  • Date 2002-06-03
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9780745619446
  • ISBN 9780745619446 / 0745619444
  • Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.08 x 5.96 x 0.85 in (23.06 x 15.14 x 2.16 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Sex role
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001006332
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.3

First line

I have always been lucky with women.

From the rear cover

This accessible text aims to give a theoretical overview of approaches to gender. 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. Throughout the book it is recognized that becoming gendered implicates and is implicated by other aspects of social becoming. 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. 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 what are often viewed as opposing directions of thought. Students and researchers in sociology, philosophy and gender studies, and all those with an interest in gender will find it an invaluable resource.

About the author

Dr Rachel Alsop, Gender Studies, University of Hull

Dr. Annette FitzSimons, School of Social and Professional Studies, University of Lincoln and Humberside

Dr. Kathleen Lennon, Philosophy, University of Hull