Gender Studies Terms and Debates

by Cranny-Francis, Anne; Waring, Wendy; Stavropolous, Pam; Kirby, Joan

• ISBN13: 9780333776124
• ISBN10: 0333776127
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-22
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

This book provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to current debates on gender, exploring the major theorists whose work has produced and inspired feminist analysis in women's/gender studies, cultural studies, and sociology. By clarifying and explaining the concepts of gender analysis and by demonstrating ways of working with these concepts, the authors involve the readers directly in the reading process and leave them feeling empowered. Accessible introductions to the work of major theorists help to give difficult concepts a context and the theory is related back to practice and to related fields such as class and race analysis throughout.

Author Biography

Anne Cranny-Francis is Associate Professor in English and Cultural Studies, Wendy Waring is Director of the Institute for Women's Studies, Pam Stavropolous lectures in the Department of Politics, and Joan Kirkby is Associate Professor in Critical and Cultural Studies, all at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Ways of Talking	1	(41)
Gender	1	(3)
Sex	4	(3)
Sexuality	7	(2)
The Modern Subject	9	(4)
Institution	13	(1)
Patriarchy	14	(3)
Heterosexuality	17	(3)
Homosexual	20	(3)
Homosexuality	23	(3)
Lesbian	26	(3)
Gay	29	(4)
Identity	33	(3)
Experience	36	(3)
Summary	39	(1)
Recommended Reading	40	(1)
Exercises	41	(1)
Ways of Thinking	42	(47)
Models of Subjectivity	43	(2)
The Linguistic Subject	45	(4)
Gender and Subjectivity	49	(1)
Psychoanalysis and Gender	50	(3)
More Than One Freud	53	(2)
Rethinking Gender: Feminisms and Identity	55	(1)
The Question of Identity Politics	55	(4)
Difference	59	(2)
Psychoanalysis and the Other	61	(1)
The Other Within	62	(1)
Lacan's `Lack' and the Power of the Phallus	63	(1)
Critiques of `The Phallus'	64	(1)
Julia Kristeva and Abjection	65	(1)
Difference and Power	65	(3)
Partial Identities and Provisional Positions	68	(1)
Feminist Standpoint Theory	69	(2)
Fractured Identities	71	(1)
Cyborg Feminism	71	(3)
Queer (Non) Identities	74	(4)
Bisexual Identities	78	(1)
Masculine Identities: The Men's Movement and Men's Studies	79	(4)
Embodiment	83	(2)
Summary	85	(1)
Recommended Reading	86	(1)
Exercises	87	(2)
Ways of Reading	89	(50)
Text	89	(2)
Texts, Bodies and Identity	91	(1)
Discourse	92	(4)
Analysing Gendered Discourse	96	(4)
Texts as Engendering Practices	100	(5)
Analysing Textual Practice	105	(1)
Genre	106	(3)
Complexity and Disjunction	109	(3)
Complex and Diverse Readers	112	(2)
Ways of Reading	114	(1)
Mainstream or Compliant Reading	115	(2)
Resistant Reading	117	(1)
Resisting the Text	118	(4)
Rewriting the Text	122	(4)
Rewriting the Reading	126	(3)
Tactical Reading or `Textual Poaching'	129	(7)
Summary	136	(1)
Recommended Reading	137	(1)
Exercises	137	(2)
Ways of Seeing	139	(39)
Stereotypes	140	(2)
Inequalities of Power and Access	142	(1)
Examples of Stereotypes	143	(2)
Stereotypes in Conflict	145	(1)
The Ormond College Case	146	(1)
The Hill/Thomas Case	147	(1)
Resisting Stereotypes	148	(1)
Stereotype Reversal	148	(2)
Identification	150	(2)
Narcissism	152	(1)
The Other in the Self	153	(1)
Introjection and Projection	154	(1)
Lacan and the Mirror Stage	155	(1)
Fashion Photography and Sexuality	156	(1)
Julia Kristeva and the Semiotic	157	(2)
Going to the Movies	159	(1)
The Gaze	159	(1)
Voyeurism, Sadism and Fetishism	160	(1)
Sexual Difference and Visual Pleasure	161	(1)
Feminism and Film-making	162	(1)
The Woman as Spectator	162	(5)
Femininity and Masculinity as Masquerade	167	(2)
Challenging the Gendered Gaze: Transvestism to Posttranssexualism	169	(5)
Queering the Gaze	174	(1)
Summary	175	(1)
Recommended Reading	176	(1)
Exercises	177	(1)
Ways of Being	178	(45)
Introduction	178	(1)
Bodies of Knowledge	179	(3)
Who Knows ...?	182	(1)
The Gendered Learner	182	(1)
Feminist Critiques of the Disembodied Knower	183	(4)
Doctored Bodies	187	(1)
Biopower: Control of the Body, Control of the Species	188	(2)
The Deployment of Sexuality	190	(2)
Challenging Reproductive Technologies	192	(2)
Cocaine Mothers and Crack Babies	194	(2)
New Bodies	196	(1)
Fashioning Bodies	197	(1)
Femininity, Masculinity and Fashion	197	(2)
Born to Shop!	199	(1)
The Freedom Bin	200	(1)
Fashions of the Body	201	(1)
Plastic Bodies	202	(3)
The Body of the Law	205	(4)
The Hysterical Body	209	(2)
Gendered Bodies in Space	211	(7)
Marked Bodies	218	(1)
Hybrid Bodies	219	(1)
Summary	220	(1)
Recommended Reading	221	(1)
Exercises	221	(2)
Ways of Living	223	(26)
Where the Structural and the Psychic Meet: Gendered Labour and the Politics of Work	223	(8)
Home is Where the Heart Is?: The Gendered Politics of Intimacy	231	(6)
Sexual Space, Citizenship and Democracy	237	(6)
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Negotiation of Gender Duality in Young Children	243	(3)
Summary	246	(1)
Recommended Reading	246	(1)
Exercises	247	(2)
Conclusion	249	(4)
Bibliography	253	(17)
Index	270