Binding: Paperback
Description: The Gender Binary and the Invention of Race explores a fundamental and often overlooked connection between modern European conceptions of gender and race. Starting in the eighteenth century these conceptions have intermeshed through a racialized gender binary ideal for the male female couple that supposedly only Europeans embody. Through an exploration of various expressions of this racial gender - binary ideal this book illuminates the deep connections between categories of race sex/gender and sexuality and the social hierarchies they support. This book also explores how the racial gender binary ideal has both shaped fin de si cle arguments for the respectability of male homosexuality and informed the mid twentieth century feminist analysis of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. Finally this book compares its approach to understanding the race/gender connection to that of intersectional theorist Kimberle Crenshaw. The Gender Binary and the Invention of Race is an accessibly written book that will be of interest both to undergraduate and graduate students of Gender Studies as well as to a general audience wishing to learn more about the relationship between the categories of race gender and sexuality.
Title: The Gender Binary And The Invention Of Race
Author(s): Markowitz Sally
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780367367541
Pages: 194 Pages
Publication Date: 5/28/2024
Category: Sociology