Queer post-gender ethics : the shape of selves to come /
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| Author / Creator: | Nicholas, Lucy, 1981- author. |
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| Imprint: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. |
| Description: | x, 230 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Genders and sexualities in the social sciences Genders and sexualities in the social sciences. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10102647 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Queer theory
- Sex/gender/sexuality/difference
- Approach
- The argument and structure: deconstructing sexual difference, reconstructing ethical selves
- 1. The Resilience of Bigenderism
- The omnirelevance of sex/gender identity
- The 'disembodied' nature of sex/gender
- The binary limits of trans identity politics
- 2. Diagnosing and Transcending Sexual Difference
- 'Explanatory-diagnostic analysis'
- The limits of the sex/gender divide
- The alternative 'diagnosis': the sex/gender/ desire continuum
- The nature of sex: beyond sexual dimorphism and beyond the cultural vs. the material
- Reconstruction: the malleability of matter
- The intersubjectivity of sexual difference: cultural genitals
- Refining the problem and the aim: doing and un-doing difference
- Opposition(s) and hierarchy(s): the symbolic violence of gender
- 'Anticipatory-utopian critique': transcending sexual difference
- Conclusion: the task ahead
- 3. Gender Justice
- Limits to liberal justice and freedom
- The veil of ignorance
- Liberalism as androcentric androgyny
- Liberal feminism
- Ethics of benevolence and partiality
- Conclusion
- 4. Philosophical Arguments for Post-Gender Ontological Ethics
- The ontological: the ambiguous existence of others
- The conditions of agency: situated capacity
- The ethical: transcendence through self creation
- Sexual difference as oppression and immanence
- Freedom as collective doing
- Reciprocity as enabling alternative
- Implications for post-gender politics: evaluating freedoms and maximising agency
- Conclusion
- 5. Queer Futures and Queer Ethics: Sketching Inexhaustibly Reciprocal Androgyny
- The violence of closure
- The closure of androgyny
- 'Queer' and the reification of identity
- Who is the other? The limits to recognition and the closure of sameness
- Being reciprocal
- Universalised particularism
- (Global) queer ethic: 'sex for pleasure'
- Queering Utopia, queering androgyny
- Conclusion
- 6. The Politics of Implementing Post-Gender Ethics: Beyond Idealism/Realism
- The inescapability of power and norms
- Negation of negation: justifying strategic violence
- Strategic essentialism and preventing closure
- Beyond means/ends in gender and sexuality politics
- Foreclosing foreclosure: doubled vision
- Conclusion
- 7. The Fully Armed Self: Cultivating Post-Gender Subjects
- Multi-layered sites for post-gender ethics
- Fully armed: the ideal subject for androgynous reciprocity
- Why pedagogy?
- Queer pedagogy
- Teaching androgyny
- Gender-neutral childrearing
- 8. Ethical Post-Gender Sexual Relationships and Communities
- Doing reciprocity together: enabling relations for post-gender ethics
- The relational ideal: enabling, truly dialogical communication
- Reciprocal relations in practice
- Anarchist and queer approaches to intimate relationships
- Enabling, post-gender cultural resources: 'transcending immanence in concert with others'
- Deregulating dimorphism: intersex rights
- Post-gender prenguration and gender-neutral language
- Ethical sex: community responses to sexual assault
- Conclusion: Utopian Realism
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
