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Gender stands as one of the great conceptual devices of the twentieth century. It has becomes such a part of the English language that it seems indispensable and even ahistorical today. Yet until the 1950s, gender in English marked relations between words rather than people. Gender: A Genealogy of an Idea represents a critical intervention into the concept of gender. It traces gender’s historical specificity from its mid-twentieth century origins in sexology through the present and demonstrates the complex relation that the intersexed have to the concept. In doing so, this text applies a fresh approach to the study of gender as an object of knowledge and embodied experience.
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Gender, Jennifer E. Germon
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- Released
- 2009
- Binding
- (Hardcover)
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- Title
- Gender
- Subtitle
- A Genealogy of an Idea
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jennifer E. Germon
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Released
- 2009
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN10
- 0230608272
- ISBN13
- 9780230608276
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, LGBTQ+, Gender
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- Gender stands as one of the great conceptual devices of the twentieth century. It has becomes such a part of the English language that it seems indispensable and even ahistorical today. Yet until the 1950s, gender in English marked relations between words rather than people. Gender: A Genealogy of an Idea represents a critical intervention into the concept of gender. It traces gender’s historical specificity from its mid-twentieth century origins in sexology through the present and demonstrates the complex relation that the intersexed have to the concept. In doing so, this text applies a fresh approach to the study of gender as an object of knowledge and embodied experience.