Product Description: Among numerous ancient Western tropes about gender and procreation, “the seed and the soil” is arguably the oldest, most potent, and most invisible in its apparent naturalness. The Gender Vendors denaturalizes this proto-theory of procreation and deconstructs its contemporary legacy...read more

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Judith Butler's work on gender, sexuality, identity, and the body has proved massively influential across a range of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Yet it is also notoriously difficult to access. This key book provides a comprehensive introduction to Butler's work, plus a critical examination of it and its precursors, both feminist (including Simone de Beauvoir, Monique Wittig, Julia Kristeva and Luce Irigaray), and non-feminist (including Erving Goffman, Michel Foucault, Jacques Lacan, and Jacques Derrida). The volume covers such topics as: gender as performance and performativity sociological notions of performance the materiality of the body and the role of biology power, identity and social regulation subjectivity, agency and feminist political practice. A comprehensive introduction to Butler’s work, this book also covers melancholia and gender identity, hate speech, pornography and 'race', social change and transformation, and Butler’s shifting relation to psychoanalysis. Clearly laid out to cover key themes for a student audience, this text will be an essential read for undergraduates in the fields of gender, psychoanalysis and sociology.

Product Description: Feminist and critical race theorists alike have long acknowledged the "intersection" of gender and race difference; it is by now a truism that the ways we become boys and girls, men and women, cannot be disentangled from the ways we become white or Black men and women, Asian or Latino boys and girls...read more

Product Description: How will the ability to manipulate human reproduction change our social world and the relationship between the sexes? Taking an explicitly interdisciplinary approach to gender and reproductive technology, Robyn Ferrell examines this question in the light of feminist theories of sexual equality and sexual difference, arguing that technology itself can be seen as a kind of reproduction...read more

Product Description: In the Western Hemisphere, gender issues have become an integral part of our lives. Few people realize, however, that they are based on profound philosophical presuppositions. After an extensive literary critique on the subject, Beatriz Vollmer analyzes the different philosophical currents, which have taken gender issues and feminism in so many directions...read more

Product Description: Fatal Abstractions: The Parallogics of Everyday Life concludes Professor Thompson’s «Hestia Trilogy». Adopting the analytic lenses of the Hestian/Hermean Dual Systems Paradigm, proposed in the trilogy’s two previous volumes, the trilogy critiques paradigms that are baised in favor of the political at the expense of the familial...read more

Product Description: The Accidental Theorist, first in a «Hestia trilogy», introduces the Hestian/Hermean Dual Systems Paradigm as a lens of analysis through which to view the private/public and the familial/political in feminist philosophy and theory...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Product Description: This book is an ethic of inclusion leading from gender and sexual difference through the social world of race and culture to the natural world."The book engages a central question in feminist philosophy and centers on Irigaray's question of sexual difference, moving through this to an ethics of inclusion based on ethical difference...read more

Product Description: This book is an ethic of inclusion leading from gender and sexual difference through the social world of race and culture to the natural world.

Product Description: In Bodies That Matter, Judith Butler further develops her distinctive theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most "material" dimensions of sex and sexuality. Deepening the inquiries she began in Gender Trouble, Butler offers an original reformulation of the materiality of bodies, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender...read more