What Gender Is, What Gender Does provides a forceful new paradigm
for considering genders. With depth and insight, Judith Roof argues
that genders are much more than binary. And they are constantly
morphing: they are conscious and unconscious, simultaneously
conventional and idiosyncratic. At any moment, more than one gender
dynamic is at work in any individual. Roof's interpretation of
genders isn't content with either biological duality or endlessly
open performativity, and what results is a nuanced and surprising
representation of gender-an account that captures the complexities
of lived experience as well as lived ideology. For Roof, genders
are interacting sets of operations that link individual desires to
multiple, shifting manifestations of sociocultural positioning and
self-presentation. Thus, "to gender" is to signal, mask, suggest,
mislead, and simplify the uncontainable chaos of desires
characteristic of subjects but roundly contained by society.
Drawing illustrative material from contemporary popular culture
productions, including My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Spider-Man, Shrek,
Shallow Hal, Sex and the City, Bridesmaids, Bond films, and
"bromance" movies, What Gender Is, What Gender Does demonstrates
how the persistent conflation of gender and sexual difference is,
on the one hand, a simple taxonomic urge and, on the other, a cover
that offers the security of identity in place of the frustrations
and fears of the real asymmetries of personal power dynamics.
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