Ebook: Gender

Critical debates about gender are intense, diverse, and vigorously ongoing, now bearing on every aspect of cultural endeavour and enquiry. What becomes clear when investigating this subject is that, while feminism has obviously played a pioneering role in the articulation, politicization, and development of questions of gender, the field of enquiry into gender is broader than feminism. This reader takes into account these considerations and offers an accessible and stimulating introduction to the sheer breadth and diversity of work on gender. While feminism is represented in its vitality and variety, so too is work on masculinities, psychoanalytical accounts of gender, and more recent developments such as queer theory.;Women and fiction / Virginia Woolf -- A future for materialist feminist criticism? / Catherine Belsey -- Toward a more feminist criticism / Adrienne Rich -- Under Western eyes : feminist scholarship and colonial discourses / Chandra Talpade Mohanty -- Look back in anger : men in the fifties / Lynne Segal -- Mr Nice (and Mr Nasty) / Jonathan Rutherford -- Are you a man or a mouse? / Homi K. Bhabha -- How to build a man / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- Femininity and its discontents / Jacqueline Rose -- Womanliness as a masquerade / Joan Riviere -- Joan Riviere and the masquerade / Stephen Heath -- Critically queer / Judith Butler -- Gender or sex? / Diane Elam.