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A Companion to Gender Studies
"A Companion to Gender Studies" presents a unified and comprehensive vision of its field, and its new directions. It is designed to demonstrate in action the rich interplay between gender and other markers of social position and (dis)privilege, such as race, class, ethnicity, and nationality.
Presents a unified and comprehensive vision of gender studies, and its ...more
Presents a unified and comprehensive vision of gender studies, and its ...more
Paperback, 561 pages
Published
March 30th 2009
by Wiley-Blackwell
(first published 2009)
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“Gender and sexual behaviour [are] things that are neither individually intended nor biologically determined, but culturally embedded; pressured […] before birth, a child is already treated as gendered […]. If gender is performed and imposed by reiteration – “citationality” – the imposition is violent, precisely because no “natural” reality or truth supports it.”
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