What Gender Is, What Gender Does |
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| Author:
| Roof, Judith |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8166-9857-8 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2016 |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $140.00 |
Book Description:
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What Gender Is, What Gender Does provides a forceful new paradigm forconsidering genders. With depth and insight, Judith Roof demonstrates how thepersistent conflation of gender and sexual difference is, on the one hand, asimple taxonomic urge and, on the other, a cover that offers the security ofidentity in place of the frustrations and fears of the real asymmetries of personalpower dynamics.
What Gender Is, What Gender Does provides a forceful new paradigm forconsidering genders. With depth and insight, Judith Roof demonstrates how thepersistent conflation of gender and sexual difference is, on the one hand, asimple taxonomic urge and, on the other, a cover that offers the security ofidentity in place of the frustrations and fears of the real asymmetries of personalpower dynamics.