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Elias has written a sociological thesis, dense with information, extensively footnoted, and carefully hewing to the facts.\" * The Gay \u0026amp; Lesbian Review *\u003cbr\u003e“This may be a case of scholarship catching up with James Ellroy, whose novel \u003ci\u003eAmerican Tabloid\u003c\/i\u003e pursued that thesis with all due imaginative embellishment.” * Inside Higher Education *\u003cbr\u003e\"This engrossing work blends the best of standard political history with superb cultural analysis. . . . Recommended.\" * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e“A masterful interpretation of the politics of the early Cold War.\" * Commonweal *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eGossip Men\u003c\/i\u003e is a fast-paced and absorbing account of how the men who were most vulnerable to gossip about their sexuality—Joseph McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and J. Edgar Hoover—rose to power by mastering the art of masculine performance. 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This is a brilliant and innovative book.’\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cem\u003eSandra Lee Bartky\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Rereading this book, as well as reading it for the first time, reshapes the categories through which we experience and perform our lives and bodies. To be troubled in this way is an intellectual pleasure and a political necessity.'\u003c\/strong\u003e - \u003cem\u003eDonna Haraway\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface (1999) Preface (1990) \u003cstrong\u003e1. Subjects of Sex\/Gender\/Desire\u003c\/strong\u003e I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex\/Gender\/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement \u003cstrong\u003e2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix \u003c\/strong\u003e I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power \u003cstrong\u003e3. Subversive Bodily Acts \u003c\/strong\u003eI. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. 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She clarifies the notion of performativity introduced in Gender Trouble and via bold readings of Plato, Irigaray, Lacan, and Freud explores the meaning of a citational politics. She also draws on documentary and literature with compelling interpretations of the film Paris is Burning, Nella Larsen's Passing,  and short stories by Willa Cather.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As a philosopher of gender [Judith Butler] is unparalleled.\" \u003cem\u003e– Village Voice\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Butler gives us a new way to think about the materiality of the body in the discursive performity operative in the materialization of sex. Following a common move in postmodern feminism, Butler sets out to demolish the sex\/gender distinction that has formed the mainstay of the de Beauvorian and radical feminism's notion that gender, as a cultural construction, could be critiqued and politicized against the givenness of the body's biological sex. . . .What is new in \u003cem\u003eBodies That Matter\u003c\/em\u003e is Butler's attempt to write more directly about race.\" \u003cem\u003e– Signs\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Extending the brilliant style of interrogation that made her 1990 book \u003cem\u003eGender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity\u003c\/em\u003e a landmark of gender theory\/queer theory, Butler here continues to refine our understandings of the complexly performative character of sexuality and gender and to trouble our assumptions about the inherent subversiveness of dissident sexualities. . . . indispensable reading across the wide range of concerns that queer theory is currently addressing.\" \u003cem\u003e– Artforum\u003c\/em\u003e\"What the implications\/limitations of 'sexing' are and how the process works comprise the content of this strikingly perceptive book. . . . 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[Sharon] Marcus is a brilliant theorist and analyst of theater history.\"\u003cb\u003e---Elaine Showalter, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[An] insightful and often entertaining take on celebrity. . . . The linchpin of the author's study is French stage actress Sarah Bernhardt, a master of self-promotion. To the shelves of works about Bernhardt, Marcus brings a singular take—richly illustrated throughout by reproduced drawings, paintings, and photographs—that fascinates as it explains her concepts of celebrity.\" * Kirkus *\u003cbr\u003e\"Marcus’s study of Bernhardt, a Jewish actress, is remarkable. Even though this is an academic text, it reads so well. And wow, could we read a bajillion more books on Sarah Bernhardt!!!\"\u003cb\u003e---Emily Burack, \u003ci\u003eAlma\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Marcus’s great achievement here is that she leads us on a journey of understanding celebrity and stardom with a richer history than we are often want to take.\"\u003cb\u003e---D. Gilson, \u003ci\u003eLambda Literary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Drama of Celebrity\u003c\/i\u003e by Sharon Marcus is a hybrid of biography and sociological treatise on one of the most important phenomena of modern times . . . why we are attracted to — or, conversely, repulsed by — celebrity culture.\"\u003cb\u003e---Kitty Kelley, \u003ci\u003eWashington Independent Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[An] insightful and engaging examination of celebrity culture . . . 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The book reproduces a rich trove of archival material which, if it does not bring Bernhardt back to life, at least reveals the scintillating liveliness of her image a century ago . . . Spend 200 pages with Sarah Bernhardt, and Kim Kardashian’s provocations come to seem less shocking.\"\u003cb\u003e---Irina Dumitrescu, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[An] excellent new book . . . Marcus [has] performed a great service by illuminating the extraordinary gift possessed by [Sarah Bernhardt].\"\u003cb\u003e---Joseph Roach, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Drama of Celebrity\u003c\/i\u003e is premised on a fundamental continuity between Bernhardt’s era and our own, and Marcus is surely right to contend that the star did much to invent what we now recognize as celebrity culture.\"\u003cb\u003e---Ruth Bernard Yeazell, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[S]parky, feisty and compelling . . . . Sharon Marcus’s book is tour de force and the author a total star.\"\u003cb\u003e---Jonathan Margolis, \u003ci\u003eJewish Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Olivia Vinall delivers an engaging narration of Marcus's exhaustive research on the origins of modern celebrity culture . . . 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For many, there is anxiety about which words to use in conversation and sometimes people keep quiet so as to not offend someone whose gender identity may not be readily discernible, when in actuality, what they desire is to understand, learn, and interact. This book offers practical research-based strategies for expanding personal, social and political awareness about gender-identity privileges - helping the reader to work through fears and unpack ingrained communication patterns and language. In order to better understand the ever-evolving landscape of gender identity the authors provide historical and political background for the transgender movement and consider how issues of age, culture, race, social class, media, celebrity and religion affect transgender identities. 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Critical Consumption of Transgender and Non-Binary Representations in Popular Culture and Social Media, \u003ci\u003eRhea Ashley Hoskin, Jessie Earl and Ashleigh Yule\u003c\/i\u003e 4. 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The result is a rich picture of a historical period and cultural landscape which brings dress and visual culture back into historical narratives of the modern Middle East.Recognising multiple modernities, multiple imperialisms and diverse regional experiences of post-colonialism, \u003ci\u003eFashioning the Modern Middle East \u003c\/i\u003econtains a range of theoretical frameworks invaluable to students of fashion studies, Middle Eastern s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese thoughtful essays on the historical meanings of dress, and what it might tell us about choices, compulsions, and self-representations, engage readers in the compelling work of interpretation. Narratives about power, these are also stories about visual archives: not only what they tell us, but how elusive they are. These scholars’ passion for the archives they’ve allowed us to view is evident. It’s a rich read. * Marilyn Booth, University of Oxford, UK *\u003cbr\u003eExamining the ‘corporeal’ Middle East, this innovative and multi-disciplinary volume explores different forms of representation of image on film and canvas, how both individuals and the state sought to fashion themselves, and the ways in which sartorial choice could be used to challenge established norms. * Kate Fleet, University of Cambridge, UK *\u003cbr\u003eThis volume sheds new light on the Middle East. The underlying theme throughout the essays is in order to claim modernity people had to be prepared to absorb into their daily lives all that they perceived as that which constituted the western modernity. The book makes fascinating reading uncovering a life which few westerners could envisage. * The Journal of Dress History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements  1. 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The Photograph, the Dress, and the Conjugalization of the Family Afsaneh Najmabadi  Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738593046871,"sku":"9781350135215","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350135215.jpg?v=1720049585"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/collections\/gender-studies-gender-groups.oembed?page=4","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}