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By Catharine R. Stimpson,Gilbert Herdt

ISBN-10: 0226774805

ISBN-13: 9780226774800

ISBN-10: 0226774813

ISBN-13: 9780226774817

“Gender platforms pervade and keep watch over human lives—in legislation courts and working rooms, ballparks and poker golf equipment, hair-dressing salons and kitchens, study rooms and playgroups. . . . precisely how gender works varies from tradition to tradition, and from ancient interval to ancient interval, yet gender is particularly rarely not at paintings. Nor does gender function in isolation. it really is associated with different social constructions and resources of identity.”

 

So write women’s experiences pioneer Catharine R. Stimpson and anthropologist Gilbert Herdt of their advent to Critical phrases for the examine of Gender, laying out the wide-ranging nature of this interdisciplinary and swiftly altering box. The 6th within the sequence of “Critical phrases” books, this quantity presents an necessary creation to the learn of gender via an exploration of keyword phrases which are part of daily discourse during this very important subject.

 

Following Stimpson and Herdt’s cautious account of the evolution of gender experiences and its relation to women’s and sexuality reviews, the twenty-one essays right here forged an competently extensive internet, spanning the examine of gender and sexuality around the humanities and social sciences. Written through a unique staff of students, every one essay offers scholars with a background of a given term—from bodies to utopia—and explains the conceptual luggage it incorporates and the types of serious paintings it may be made to do. The individuals supply incisive discussions of themes ranging from desire, identityjustice, and kinship to loverace, and religion that recommend new instructions for the certainty of gender stories. the result's a vital reference addressed to scholars learning gender in very varied disciplinary contexts.

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