Book contents
- Why Gender?
- Why Gender?
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- A Prefatory Note
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Gender in Translation: Beyond Monolingualism
- Chapter 2 Gender and the Queer/Trans* Undercommons
- Chapter 3 Gender and the End of Biological Determinism
- Chapter 4 Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Colonialism
- Chapter 5 Posthuman Feminism and Gender Methodology
- Chapter 6 Gender, Sperm Troubles, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
- Chapter 7 Gender, Capital, and Care
- Chapter 8 Aspiration Management: Gender, Race, Class, and the Child as Waste
- Chapter 9 Gender, Race and American National Identity: The First Black First Family
- Chapter 10 Gender and the Collective
- Chapter 11 Willfulness, Feminism, and the Gendering of Will
- Chapter 12 Gender and Emigré Political Thought: Hannah Arendt and Judith Shklar
- Chapter 13 Feminism and the Abomination of Violence: Gender Thought and Unthought
- Chapter 14 Trafficking, Prostitution, and Inequality: The Centrality of Gender
- Chapter 15 Gender, Revenge, Mutation, and War
- Chapter 16 Bed Peace and Gender Abnorms
- Index
- References
Chapter 2 - Gender and the Queer/Trans* Undercommons
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 October 2021
- Why Gender?
- Why Gender?
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- A Prefatory Note
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Gender in Translation: Beyond Monolingualism
- Chapter 2 Gender and the Queer/Trans* Undercommons
- Chapter 3 Gender and the End of Biological Determinism
- Chapter 4 Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Colonialism
- Chapter 5 Posthuman Feminism and Gender Methodology
- Chapter 6 Gender, Sperm Troubles, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
- Chapter 7 Gender, Capital, and Care
- Chapter 8 Aspiration Management: Gender, Race, Class, and the Child as Waste
- Chapter 9 Gender, Race and American National Identity: The First Black First Family
- Chapter 10 Gender and the Collective
- Chapter 11 Willfulness, Feminism, and the Gendering of Will
- Chapter 12 Gender and Emigré Political Thought: Hannah Arendt and Judith Shklar
- Chapter 13 Feminism and the Abomination of Violence: Gender Thought and Unthought
- Chapter 14 Trafficking, Prostitution, and Inequality: The Centrality of Gender
- Chapter 15 Gender, Revenge, Mutation, and War
- Chapter 16 Bed Peace and Gender Abnorms
- Index
- References
Summary
Gender is one of the many metrics by which bodies are measured in terms of the adherence to or departure from the norm. And trans* bodies have, in the past, offered a clear challenge to gender binarism on the one hand and the notion of a natural division between the two genders on the other. Careful attention to the disruption that trans* bodies sow in relation to social norms can change fundamentally the way we understand other seemingly stable oppositions such as legal and illegal, legible and illegible, known and unknowing and so on. This chapter refuses to resolve the confusion or bewilderment created by the spectacle or, as is often the case, the specter, of the trans* body. Instead, we follow disruption, disorder and bewilderment into new orientations to time, place, futurity and desire.
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- Why Gender? , pp. 38 - 56Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021