Gender

A Genealogy of an Idea

Autor*innen

• Jennifer E. Germon

Parameter

• 304 Seiten
• 11 Lesestunden

• Gender
• LGBTQ+ Literatur
• Sachliteratur
• Sozialwissenschaften

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Gender stands as one of the great conceptual devices of the twentieth century. It has becomes such a part of the English language that it seems indispensable and even ahistorical today. Yet until the 1950s, gender in English marked relations between words rather than people. Gender: A Genealogy of an Idea represents a critical intervention into the concept of gender. It traces gender’s historical specificity from its mid-twentieth century origins in sexology through the present and demonstrates the complex relation that the intersexed have to the concept. In doing so, this text applies a fresh approach to the study of gender as an object of knowledge and embodied experience.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Einband: Hardcover