UID:
almahu_9949767101502882
Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9780429351198
,
0429351194
,
9781040028506
,
1040028500
,
9781040028544
,
1040028543
Content:
"The Gender Binary and the Invention of Race explores a fundamental and often overlooked connection between modern European classifications of sex/gender and those of race. Starting in the eighteenth century, these classifications have been co-constructed through a White, sex/gender-binary ideal for the male-female couple; an ideal that so-called "inferior races" were thought not to meet. Through an exploration of expressions of this racial sex/gender-binary ideal, this book will broaden the reader's understanding of how thoroughly enmeshed categories of race, sex/gender, and sexuality are, as well how the racial gender-binary ideal has structured dominant understandings of race and sex/gender categories in a way that supports multiple social hierarchies. It also demonstrates how the racial gender-binary ideal has shaped arguments for the respectability of fin de siècle male homosexuality, as well as Simone de Beauvoir's classic text, The Second Sex. In addition, the book compares the approach it takes to understanding the relationship between sex/gender and racial categories and oppressions to the intersectional approach associated with Kimberlé Crenshaw. The Gender Binary and the Invention of Race is an accessibly written book of interest to those studying in both undergraduate and graduate Gender Studies classes, especially those focused on the relationship between categories of gender and race, as well as a more general audience with a background or interest in Gender Studies"--
Additional Edition:
Print version: Markowitz, Sally. Gender binary and the invention of race Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 ISBN 9780367367541
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780429351198
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429351198
