What Gender Is, What Gender Does
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
What Gender Is, What Gender Does
By (Author) Judith Roof
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st July 2016
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
155.33
Physical Properties
Paperback
288
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 38mm
Description
What Gender Is, What Gender Does provides a forceful new paradigm for considering genders. With depth and insight, Judith Roof 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.
Reviews
"What Gender Is, What Gender Does is a major intervention in todays stagnant theoretical debates on gender in its twenty-first-century permutations. With characteristic assertiveness, Judith Roof takes us beyond identity politics to forge a model of polymorphous sexuation that exposes gender regimesincluding those based in queer, transgender, and performative thoughtto cover up and perpetuate the asymmetries of sexual difference as immutable truth."Rene C. Hoogland, Wayne State University
Author Bio
Judith Roof is William Shakespeare Chair in English at Rice University. She is the author of A Lure of Knowledge: Lesbian Sexuality and Theory, Reproductions of Reproduction: Imaging Symbolic Change, Come As You Are: Sexuality and Narrative, All about Thelma and Eve: Sidekicks and Third Wheels, and The Poetics of DNA (Minnesota, 2007).
