Gender under construction : femininities and masculinities in context /

Gender under construction : femininities and masculinities in context /

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Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2018]
Description:	xii, 181 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries ; volume 94 At the interface/probing the boundaries ; v. 94.
Subject:	Gender identity. Gender identity.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11592566

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Other authors / contributors:	Glapka, Ewa, editor. Braid, Barbara, editor.
ISBN:	9789004350762 9004350764
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:	Gender performativity, its variances depending on their historical, social and cultural contexts, and the rituals, representations and institutions involved in gender performances are some of the issues the authors addressed in this collection. This book takes a non-essentialist view of gender and provides illustrative examples of gender constructive processes by pursuing them in various contexts and by means of diverse methodologies. In so doing, the book demonstrates that it is unfeasible to consider gender as a fixed biological trait. Instead, the authors propose to look at gender performance as ongoing processes in which femininities and masculinities enter multiple and dynamic intersections with a myriad of categories, including those of nationality, ethnicity, class, sexuality and age.0.

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Summary:	Gender performativity, its variances depending on their historical, social and cultural contexts, and the rituals, representations and institutions involved in gender performances are some of the issues the authors addressed in this collection. Gender under Construction takes a non-essentialist view of gender and provides illustrative examples of gender constructive processes by pursuing them in various contexts and by means of diverse methodologies. In so doing, the book demonstrates that it is unfeasible to consider gender as a fixed biological trait. Instead, the authors propose to look at gender performance as ongoing processes in which femininities and masculinities enter multiple and dynamic intersections with a myriad of categories, including those of nationality, ethnicity, class, sexuality and age.<br><br>Contributors are Iqbal Akthar, Renata Ćuk, Ewa Glapka, Deirdre Hynes, Borja Ibaseta, Martin King, Ana Cristina Moreira Lima, Mervi Patosalmi, Marcia Bastos de S , Andr a Costa da Silva, Vera Helena Ferraz de Siqueira, Christi van der Westhuizen and Isabelle V. Zinn.<br>
Physical Description:	xii, 181 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9789004350762 9004350764