Beschreibung:
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.
Acknowledgements. Introduction. Chapter One : Natural Women and Men. Chapter Two: Psychoanalysis and Gender. Chapter Three: The Social Construction of Gender. Chapter Four: Judith Butler; a The Queen of Queera . Chapter Five: Gender and Sexuality. Chapter Six: Theorising Men and Masculinities. Chapter Seven: Bodily Imaginaries. Chapter Eight: Sexual Difference. Chapter Nine: Borderlands and Gendered Homes. Chapter Ten: Gender and the Politics of Identity. Notes. Bibliography. Index.