Description
Book SynopsisGender as a category of analysis in the 21st century
Trade ReviewThe scholarship and the writing here is engaging and imaginative (see in particular Gayle Salamon's paper on transgenderism and Merleau-Ponty), and there is a keen sense of what's at stake in a field that seems to have, in Joan W. Scott's words, only paradoxes to offer.51.2 2014
* COMPARATIVE LITERATURE STUDIES *
[T]he book sheds light on the continued power of feminist scholarship following poststructuralism. It provides many models of engaged, provocative, critical, and careful writing that constitute feminist scholarship at its best.
The Question of Gender collects cutting-edge research by some of the most prominent contemporary feminist scholars.
* Women's Studies Quarterly *
[The editors] provide fresh analyses of the state of gender studies and the dynamic theories of 'sexual difference' as proposed, tested, and critiqued by Joan Wallach Scott.
* American Historical Review *
Table of ContentsIntroduction, Judith Butler and Elizabeth Weed
Part I: Reading Joan Wallach Scott
1. Speaking Up, Talking Back: Joan Scott's Critical Feminism, Judith Butler
Part II: The Case of History
2. Language, Experience, and Identity: Joan W. Scott and the Theoretical Challenge to Historical Studies, Miguel A. Cabrera
3. Out of Their Orbit: Celebrities and Eccentrics in Nineteenth-Century France, Mary Louise Roberts
4. Historicially Speaking: Gender and Citizenship in Colonial India, Mrinalini Sinha
5. Gender and the Figure of the 'Moderate Muslim': Feminism in the Twenty-first Century, Elora Shehabuddin
6. A Double-Edged Sword: Sexual Democracy, Gender Norms, and Racialized Rhetoric, Éric Fassin
Part III: Seeing the Question
7. Seeing beyond the Norm: Interpreting Gender in the Visual Arts, Mary D. Sheriff
8. Unlikely Couplings: The Gendering of Print Technology in the French Fin-de-Siècle, Janis Bergman-Carton
9. Screening the Avant-Garde Face, Mary Ann Doane
Part IV: Body and Sexuality in Question
10. The Sexual Schema: Transposition and Transgenderism in Phenomenology of Perception, Gayle Salamon
11. Foucault and Feminism's Prodigal Children, Lynne Huffer
12. From the 'Useful' to the 'Impossible' in Joan W. Scott, Elizabeth Weed
Thinking in Time: An Epilogue on Ethics and Politics, Wendy Brown
Contributors
Index
