Gender Studies : Terms and Debates

Preface ix Ways of Talking 1(41) Gender 1(3) Sex 4(3) Sexuality 7(2) The Modern Subject 9(4) Institution 13(1) Patriarchy 14(3) Heterosexuality 17(3) Homosexual 20(3) Homosexuality 23(3) Lesbian 26(3) Gay 29(4) Identity 33(3) Experience 36(3) Summary 39(1) Recommended Reading 40(1) Exercises 41(1) Ways of Thinking 42(47) Models of Subjectivity 43(2) The Linguistic Subject 45(4) Gender and Subjectivity 49(1) Psychoanalysis and Gender 50(3) More Than One Freud 53(2) Rethinking Gender: Feminisms and Identity 55(1) The Question of Identity Politics 55(4) Difference 59(2) Psychoanalysis and the Other 61(1) The Other Within 62(1) Lacan's `Lack' and the Power of the Phallus 63(1) Critiques of `The Phallus' 64(1) Julia Kristeva and Abjection 65(1) Difference and Power 65(3) Partial Identities and Provisional Positions 68(1) Feminist Standpoint Theory 69(2) Fractured Identities 71(1) Cyborg Feminism 71(3) Queer (Non) Identities 74(4) Bisexual Identities 78(1) Masculine Identities: The Men's Movement and Men's Studies 79(4) Embodiment 83(2) Summary 85(1) Recommended Reading 86(1) Exercises 87(2) Ways of Reading 89(50) Text 89(2) Texts, Bodies and Identity 91(1) Discourse 92(4) Analysing Gendered Discourse 96(4) Texts as Engendering Practices 100(5) Analysing Textual Practice 105(1) Genre 106(3) Complexity and Disjunction 109(3) Complex and Diverse Readers 112(2) Ways of Reading 114(1) Mainstream or Compliant Reading 115(2) Resistant Reading 117(1) Resisting the Text 118(4) Rewriting the Text 122(4) Rewriting the Reading 126(3) Tactical Reading or `Textual Poaching' 129(7) Summary 136(1) Recommended Reading 137(1) Exercises 137(2) Ways of Seeing 139(39) Stereotypes 140(2) Inequalities of Power and Access 142(1) Examples of Stereotypes 143(2) Stereotypes in Conflict 145(1) The Ormond College Case 146(1) The Hill/Thomas Case 147(1) Resisting Stereotypes 148(1) Stereotype Reversal 148(2) Identification 150(2) Narcissism 152(1) The Other in the Self 153(1) Introjection and Projection 154(1) Lacan and the Mirror Stage 155(1) Fashion Photography and Sexuality 156(1) Julia Kristeva and the Semiotic 157(2) Going to the Movies 159(1) The Gaze 159(1) Voyeurism, Sadism and Fetishism 160(1) Sexual Difference and Visual Pleasure 161(1) Feminism and Film-making 162(1) The Woman as Spectator 162(5) Femininity and Masculinity as Masquerade 167(2) Challenging the Gendered Gaze: Transvestism to Posttranssexualism 169(5) Queering the Gaze 174(1) Summary 175(1) Recommended Reading 176(1) Exercises 177(1) Ways of Being 178(45) Introduction 178(1) Bodies of Knowledge 179(3) Who Knows ...? 182(1) The Gendered Learner 182(1) Feminist Critiques of the Disembodied Knower 183(4) Doctored Bodies 187(1) Biopower: Control of the Body, Control of the Species 188(2) The Deployment of Sexuality 190(2) Challenging Reproductive Technologies 192(2) Cocaine Mothers and Crack Babies 194(2) New Bodies 196(1) Fashioning Bodies 197(1) Femininity, Masculinity and Fashion 197(2) Born to Shop! 199(1) The Freedom Bin 200(1) Fashions of the Body 201(1) Plastic Bodies 202(3) The Body of the Law 205(4) The Hysterical Body 209(2) Gendered Bodies in Space 211(7) Marked Bodies 218(1) Hybrid Bodies 219(1) Summary 220(1) Recommended Reading 221(1) Exercises 221(2) Ways of Living 223(26) Where the Structural and the Psychic Meet: Gendered Labour and the Politics of Work 223(8) Home is Where the Heart Is?: The Gendered Politics of Intimacy 231(6) Sexual Space, Citizenship and Democracy 237(6) Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Negotiation of Gender Duality in Young Children 243(3) Summary 246(1) Recommended Reading 246(1) Exercises 247(2) Conclusion 249(4) Bibliography 253(17) Index 270