Overview
A generation after the publication of Joan W. Scott's influential essay, ""Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis,"" this volume explores the current uses of the term -- and the ongoing influence of Scott's agenda-setting work in history and other disciplines. How has the study of gender, independently or in conjunction with other axes of difference -- such as race, class, and sexuality -- inflected existing fields of study and created new ones? To what extent has this concept modified or been modified by related paradigms such as women's and queer studies? With what discursive politics does the term engage, and with what effects? In what settings, and through what kinds of operations and transformations, can gender remain a useful category in the 21st century? Leading scholars from history, philosophy, literature, art history, and other fields examine how gender has translated into their own disciplinary perspectives.
Full Product Details
Author: Judith Butler ,
Elizabeth Weed
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.590kg
ISBN: 9780253356369
ISBN 10: 0253356369
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 20 July 2011
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Replaced By: 9780253223241
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Unknown
Availability: Awaiting stock
Reviews
<p> This richly stimulating book will be widely welcomed. It demonstrates in kaleidoscopic detail how feminist thought has come of age. Joan W. Scott's questioning stance over the last quarter of a century provides the thread running though the varied essays that engage with political and ethical as well as more traditionally scholarly issues. For anyone grappling with the concepts of gender and sexual difference this volume gives convincing evidence that they are formed in relation to other modes of social organisation and therefore can only be posed as historical questions. --Lenore Davidoff, University of Essex--Lenore Davidoff, University of Essex
<p> This richly stimulating book will be widely welcomed. It demonstrates inkaleidoscopic detail how feminist thought has come of age. Joan W. Scott'squestioning stance over the last quarter of a century provides the thread runningthough the varied essays that engage with political and ethical as well as moretraditionally scholarly issues. For anyone grappling with the concepts of gender andsexual difference this volume gives convincing evidence that they are formed inrelation to other modes of social organisation and therefore can only be posed ashistorical questions. -- Lenore Davidoff, University of Essex
Author Information
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature and Co-director of the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. Her books include Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity; Undoing Gender; and Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? Elizabeth Weed is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University and Director of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. She is editor of Coming to Terms: Feminism/Theory/Politics and editor (with Naomi Schor) of Feminism Meets Queer Theory (IUP, 1997) and The Essential Difference (IUP, 1994).
