Description
Book SynopsisHow are sex and gender related? Are they the same thing? What exactly is gender? How many genders are there? What is the science on all of this? Is gender a product of nature, nurture, or both? This book introduces readers to fundamental questions about sex and gender categories as they’ve been considered across the centuries and through a wide array of disciplines and perspectives. From the Bible to Darwin, from Enlightenment thinkers to contemporary trans philosophers,
Beyond the Binary comprises an accessible survey of the wide range of views about sex and gender. This revised and expanded edition uses updated terminology and diagnostic criteria and offers new material with a greater focus on trans, Indigenous, racialized, and subaltern thinkers. It includes useful discussion questions and further reading recommendations at the end of each chapter, as well as an extensive glossary of terms.
Trade Review“This book is an engaging, rigorously-researched introductory guide to some of the central questions around human sex and gender categorisations. It is wonderfully intersectional and interdisciplinary, masterfully surveying and critically engaging a broad array of positions from a host of thinkers, past and present. I highly recommend Beyond the Binary to instructors, students, and any readers wishing to expand their knowledge and deepen their thinking regarding the oft-contested concepts of sex and gender.” — Stephanie Kapusta, Dalhousie University
“The first edition of Beyond the Binary: Thinking about Sex and Gender was as thoughtful and teachable a volume as one could ask for on the complex, multidisciplinary issues surrounding sex and gender. The second edition is even better, with expanded discussions of the intersectional conceptual frames necessary for addressing the history of the ‘the binary’ and the culturally emergent forms that extend beyond it. Dea presents these complex ideas in a strikingly teachable way, and, frankly, I can’t wait to use this book in the classroom.” — Willis Salomon, Trinity University
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Framing, Tools, Terms
- Chapter 3: Aristotelian and Judeo-Christian Models of Sex Difference
- Chapter 4: The Second Sex
- Chapter 5: The Third Sex?
- Chapter 6: Gender in BIPOC and Subaltern Cultures
- Chapter 7: Intersex
- Chapter 8: Trans
- Chapter 9: Biodeterminism
- Chapter 10: The One-Sex Model
- Chapter 11: Difference and Equality
- Chapter 12: Sex/Gender as Social Construction
- Glossary
- Annotated Bibliography
- Index
