Beyond Sex and Gender

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SAGE, 2002 M07 24 - 258 pages
The central argument of this book is that the sex//gender distinction is invalid and must be transcended. To this end, the work of Foucault, Connell, Goffman, Garfinkel, Butler, Freud, Derrida, Saussure, Lacquer and Kessler and McKenna is woven into a rich and compelling set of arguments. The sex//gender distinction is attacked for producing a series of irresolvable traps. However much one tries to think one's way out of the dichotomy, one ends up being suckered back into its imponderables and blind alleys. The book attempts to comprehensively reorientate the field and redefine the terrain.
 

Contents

The Old Configuration
15
Unpicking the Knot
32
The Mystery of the Visible
52
Timely Bodies
71
Truth is Slippery Stuff
117
Stories for Sexual Difference
141
The Choreography of Sex
165
A Melancholy Gender
190
Melancholic loss
205
Gender as hyperbole
211
Above whose bodies changing aerial descriptions dance
218
The statement
225
Telling Flesh
233
References
239
Index
245
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