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PublisherPalgrave Macmillan The Limited

ISBN-100333994574

ISBN-139780333994573

eBay Product ID (ePID)5915657

Product Key Features

Number of Pages288 Pages

Publication NameGender

LanguageEnglish

SubjectFeminism & Feminist Theory, Personality, Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality)

Publication Year2004

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science, Psychology

AuthorClaire Colebrook

SeriesTransitions Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight13 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2003-054922

Reviews"Claire Colebrook's book,Gender, achieves the monumental task of pursuing a genealogy of gender from ancient times through three waves of feminist debate. Colebrook manages not only to cover a vast range of knowledge in succinct and lucid detail, but to do so with an eye to drawing out themes that shed new light on the terms of contemporary discussions...A historically informed and conceptually clarifying background for anyone interested in following or contributing to contemporary debates on gender and sexual difference." -- Tamsin Lorraine, Philosophy Department, Swarthmore College "Claire Colebrook'sGendershould be on the reading list for all courses in women's studies, literary criticism and contemporary theory. Its uniquely even-handed approach to once-inflammatory issues of gender and women's sexuality presents these movements as thoroughly comprehended and ready to yield to fresh thinking. Beautifully argued in Colebrook's crystalline and informed expository prose, this exhaustive work ... provide[s] succinct and cogent readings of the major movements and philosophico-historic contexts of gender thinking, from Plato to Gatens, with passes through such opponents as Marx and Foucault, first wave, second and third wave feminism, and Kristeva and Deleuze." - Juliet Flower MacCannell, Professor Emerita, Comparative Literature, University of California, "Claire Colebrook's book, Gender , achieves the monumental task of pursuing a genealogy of gender from ancient times through three waves of feminist debate. Colebrook manages not only to cover a vast range of knowledge in succinct and lucid detail, but to do so with an eye to drawing out themes that shed new light on the terms of contemporary discussions...A historically informed and conceptually clarifying background for anyone interested in following or contributing to contemporary debates on gender and sexual difference." -- Tamsin Lorraine, Philosophy Department, Swarthmore College "Claire Colebrook's Gender should be on the reading list for all courses in women's studies, literary criticism and contemporary theory. Its uniquely even-handed approach to once-inflammatory issues of gender and women's sexuality presents these movements as thoroughly comprehended and ready to yield to fresh thinking. Beautifully argued in Colebrook's crystalline and informed expository prose, this exhaustive work ... provide[s] succinct and cogent readings of the major movements and philosophico-historic contexts of gender thinking, from Plato to Gatens, with passes through such opponents as Marx and Foucault, first wave, second and third wave feminism, and Kristeva and Deleuze." - Juliet Flower MacCannell, Professor Emerita, Comparative Literature, University of California

Dewey Edition21

Series Volume Number21

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal305.42/01

Table Of ContentGeneral Editor's Preface Acknowledgements Gender Before Modernity Gender as Form and the Masculinity of Reason Modernity and the Materiality of Gender Sex without Gender Beyond Sex and Gender Sexual Difference and Embodiment Sexuality and Queer Theory Conclusion: Reading Gender: Frankenstein Bibliography Index.

SynopsisWhy has Western thought been so persistent in its organisation of human bodies, and other categories, in terms of the binary opposition male and female? Is gender nothing more than an ideology, or does it have its basis in sexual difference? This invaluable introductory guide offers a clear overview of the concept, and problem, of gender. Claire Colebrook places the term in its historical contexts and traces its development from the Enlightenment to the present, before moving on to the evolution of the concept of gender from within the various stances of feminist criticism, and exploring recent developments in queer theory and post-feminism. Close analysis of key literary texts, including Frankenstein , Paradise Lost and A Midsummer Night's Dream , shows how specific styles of literature enable reflection on gender., This book offers a clear introductory overview of the concept of gender. It places gender in its historical contexts and traces its development from the Enlightenment to the present, before moving on to the evolution of the concept of gender from within the various stances of feminist criticism, and recent developments in queer theory and post-feminism. Close analysis of key literary texts, including Frankenstein, Paradise Lost and A Midsummer Night's Dream, shows how specific styles of literature enable reflection on gender.

LC Classification NumberBF1-990