{"product_id":"what-gender-is-what-gender-does-hardback-9780816698578","title":"What Gender Is, What Gender Does (Hardback) 9780816698578","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWhat Gender Is, What Gender Does\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJudith Roof (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816698578\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 April 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 4\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWhat Gender Is, What Gender Does\u003c\/i\u003e is a major intervention in today’s 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 regimes-including those based in queer, transgender, and performative thought-to cover up and perpetuate the asymmetries of sexual difference as immutable truth.\"-RenÉe C. Hoogland, Wayne State University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Gender Is, What Gender Does \u003c\/i\u003eprovides a forceful new paradigm for considering genders. With depth and insight, Judith Roof argues that genders are much more than binary. And they are constantly morphing: they are conscious and unconscious, simultaneously conventional and idiosyncratic. At any moment, more than one gender dynamic is at work in any individual.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoof’s interpretation of genders isn’t content with either biological duality or endlessly open performativity, and what results is a nuanced and surprising representation of gender-an account that captures the complexities of lived experience as well as lived ideology. For Roof, genders are interacting sets of operations that link individual desires to multiple, shifting manifestations of sociocultural positioning and self-presentation. Thus, “to gender” is to signal, mask, suggest, mislead, and simplify the uncontainable chaos of desires characteristic of subjects but roundly contained by society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing illustrative material from contemporary popular culture productions, including \u003ci\u003eMy Big Fat Greek Wedding, Spider-Man, Shrek, Shallow Hal, Sex and the City, Bridesmaids,\u003c\/i\u003e Bond films, and “bromance” movies, \u003ci\u003eWhat Gender Is, What Gender Does\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Making Over: Metamorphosis, Taxonomy, Vantage\u003cbr\u003e2. Prosopopeias: Exceeding Kind\u003cbr\u003e3. Temporality Still\u003cbr\u003e4. Social Algebras\u003cbr\u003e5. Scopic Folding, Layered Economies\u003cbr\u003e6. The Fixer\u003cbr\u003e7. Gender Is as Gender Does: On the Rebound\u003cbr\u003e8. Spurious Displays\u003cbr\u003eConclusion\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eFilmography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570086605080,"sku":"9780816698578","price":59.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/what-gender-is-what-gender-does-hardback-9780816698578","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}