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The Gender Binary and the Invention of Race explores a fundamental and often overlooked connection between modern European conceptions of gender and race. Starting in the eighteenth century, these conceptions have intermeshed through a racialized genderâbinary ideal for the maleâfemale couple that, supposedly, only Europeans embody.

Through an exploration of various expressions of this racial gender-binary ideal, this book illuminates the deep connections between categories of race, sex/gender, and sexuality and the social hierarchies they support. This book also explores how the racial genderâbinary ideal has both shaped finâdeâsiÃcle arguments for the respectability of male homosexuality and informed the midâtwentiethâcentury feminist analysis of Simone de Beauvoirâs The Second Sex. Finally, this book compares its approach to understanding the race/gender connection to that of intersectional theorist Kimberle Crenshaw.

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis
      Publication Date: 5/28/2024
      ISBN13: 9780367367541, 978-0367367541
      ISBN10: 0367367548
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      Book Synopsis

      The Gender Binary and the Invention of Race explores a fundamental and often overlooked connection between modern European conceptions of gender and race. Starting in the eighteenth century, these conceptions have intermeshed through a racialized genderâbinary ideal for the maleâfemale couple that, supposedly, only Europeans embody.

      Through an exploration of various expressions of this racial gender-binary ideal, this book illuminates the deep connections between categories of race, sex/gender, and sexuality and the social hierarchies they support. This book also explores how the racial genderâbinary ideal has both shaped finâdeâsiÃcle arguments for the respectability of male homosexuality and informed the midâtwentiethâcentury feminist analysis of Simone de Beauvoirâs The Second Sex. Finally, this book compares its approach to understanding the race/gender connection to that of intersectional theorist Kimberle Crenshaw.

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