The Gender/sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy

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Roger N. Lancaster, Micaela Di Leonardo
Psychology Press, 1997 - 574 páginas
The Gender/Sexuality Reader is a sophisticated survey of the best recent work on bodies and desires across cultures and through time. Foregrounding ethnographic studies and social history, this anthology brings together an unusually broad selection of essays across the disciplines--essays that link the typically segregated topics of desire, demography, and nationalism; bodily adornment and violence against women; colonialism, gender, race, and sexuality. The settings of these rich studies are diverse: the contemporary United States, haunted by spectres of race and sex; post-Maoist China, whose love affair with the commodity draws on images of white-skinned women; modern clinics and hospitals, where new medical technologies pose unprecedented dilemmas; sexual subcultures as diverse as the lesbian community of San Francisco and carnival worlds in Brazil; and historical periods ranging from classical antiquity to postmodern Egypt. The topics these essays treat are likewise diverse and engaging: eugenics in Singapore, the political and economic context of motherhood in Brazil, rape and the inner lives of black American women, sex/culture wars in the US, the precariousness of sexual identity--and its political implications--in Nicaragua, and media representations of Africa. These essays develop the insights of social constructionism, showing how gender, sexuality, and power are historically connected and practically intertwined. Taken together, they also extend the reach of this approach, concretely connecting gender/sexuality to class, race, and nation. Contributors make use of postmodernism's topical mobility and cultural studies' thematic range while--in the best of the social science tradition--never losing sight of biology, political economy, and history. The editors' introduction situates this ground-breaking, contemporary work in the rise of feminist, gay poststructuralist, and political-economic theories, and illuminates the changing political contestations at the heart of embodied desire.
 

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LOCAL MEANINGS GLOBAL ECONOMIES
5
body politics at the convergence
13
Siobhan Somerville
37
33335
53
Kinship Parenthood States
69
6
89
State Fatherhood
107
Susan
122
From Nation to Family
279
The Color of Sex
291
arguments on female circumcision Victorian clitoridectomy
309
Victorian Clitoridectomy
325
Material Girl
335
Resistances Reinscriptions and Dispersals
359
Sisters and Queers
378
Playing with Fire
392

Fetal Images
134
Comparative Sexualities
151
Capitalism and Gay Identity
169
Transformations of HomosexualityBased Classifications
179
Seed of the Nation
194
Bodies of Knowledge and the Politics of Representation
208
Orgasm Generation and the Politics of Reproductive Biology
219
How to Build a Man
244
The Violence of Rhetoric
265
Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West
434
Negotiating Sex and Gender
440
The NeoFamilyValues Campaign
453
Transnational and Postcolonial Interlocutions
471
Movie Stars and Islamic Moralism in Egypt
502
Excerpt from Introduction to Bodies That Matter
531
Gutos Performance
559
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