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.
Tensions between these different approaches are acknowledged,
but stark polarities are resisted. Throughout the book it is
recognized that becoming gendered implicates and is implicated by
other aspects of social becoming. The work of Judith Butler is
discussed in detail and its importance and limitations spelt out in
key chapters on sexuality, the body, transgendering and political
agency. Debates between 'queer' approaches to gender and those
prioritizing sexual difference are also brought to the fore.
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Theorizing Gender "aims to provide a framework for weaving
together what are often viewed as opposing directions of thought.
Students and researchers in sociology, philosophy and gender
studies, and all those with an interest in gender will find it an
invaluable resource.
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