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Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns
What do we know about early modern sex, and how do we know it? How, when, and why does sex become history? In Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns, Valerie Traub addresses these questions and, in doing so, reorients the ways in which historians and literary critics, feminists and queer theorists approach sexuality and its history. Her answers offer interdisciplinary strategies for confronting the difficulties of making sexual knowledge.Based on the premise that producing sexual knowledge is difficult because sex itself is often inscrutable, Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns leverages the notions of opacity and impasse to explore barriers to knowledge about sex in the past. Traub argues that the obstacles in making sexual history can illuminate the difficulty of knowing sexuality. She also argues that these impediments themselves can be adopted as a guiding principle of historiography: sex may be good to think with, not because it permits us access but because it doesn't.
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Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards
Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth-century Iran, this groundbreaking book rereads and rewrites the history of Iranian modernity through the lens of gender and sexuality. Peeling away notions of a rigid pre-modern Islamic gender system, Afsaneh Najmabadi provides a compelling demonstration of the centrality of gender and sexuality to the shaping of modern culture and politics in Iran and of how changes in ideas about gender and sexuality affected conceptions of beauty, love, homeland, marriage, education, and citizenship. She concludes with a provocative discussion of Iranian feminism and its role in that country's current culture wars. In addition to providing an important new perspective on Iranian history, Najmabadi skillfully demonstrates how using gender as an analytic category can provide insight into structures of hierarchy and power and thus into the organization of politics and social life.
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Gender Transformative Health Promotion
Gender-transformative health promotion represents a comprehensive approach aimed at challenging and reshaping the gender norms and power dynamics that influence health outcomes. It acknowledges that gender is a socially constructed concept that profoundly impacts individuals' experiences, behaviors, and access to healthcare services. This approach endeavors to address the fundamental causes of gender-based health disparities by advocating for gender equality, empowering women and girls, and engaging men and boys as active participants in improving health outcomes for all. It encompasses strategies that confront gender-based violence, promote reproductive health and rights, enhance access to high-quality healthcare, and address the social determinants of health from a gendered perspective. By interrogating gender stereotypes, advancing gender equity, and fostering inclusive and empowering healthcare environments, gender-transformative health promotion aspires to create a society where every individual, regardless of their gender identity or expression, can attain optimal health and well-being. \"Gender Transformative Health Promotion\" is an influential resource that provides a comprehensive exploration of the intersection between gender and health promotion. Tailored to scholars, practitioners, and students, this book offers profound insights into the essential role, implementation, and impact of gender-transformative approaches in health promotion. It encompasses a wide range of topics, including an introduction to gender-transformative change in the context of health promotion, an analysis of gender inequalities within health systems, the intersectionality of gender in health, gender-responsive policies and programs, strategies to address gender bias in implementation, empowering women through health promotion initiatives, case studies highlighting successful gender-transformative interventions, and monitoring and sustaining transformative change. By incorporating expert perspectives and practical wisdom, this handbook serves as a vital compass for individuals navigating the intricacies of promoting gender equality through health promotion. It empowers readers to enact transformative change, cultivate inclusive societies, and contribute to advancing gender-transformative approaches in health promotion at local, national, and global levels.
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Undoing Gender
Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory, Butler considers the norms that govern--and fail to govern--gender and sexuality as they relate to the constraints on recognizable personhood. The book constitutes a reconsideration of her earlier view on gender performativity from Gender Trouble . In this work, the critique of gender norms is clearly situated within the framework of human persistence and survival. And to \"do\" one's gender in certain ways sometimes implies \"undoing\" dominant notions of personhood. She writes about the \"New Gender Politics\" that has emerged in recent years, a combination of movements concerned with transgender, transsexuality, intersex, and their complex relations to feminist and queer theory.
Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Among her books are Gender Trouble , Bodies That Matter , and Excitable Speech , all published by Routledge.
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The queer turn in feminism
More than any other area of late-twentieth-century thinking, gender theory and its avatars have been to a large extent a Franco-American invention. In this book, a leading Franco-American scholar traces differences and intersections in the development of gender and queer theories on both sides of the Atlantic. Looking at these theories through lenses that are both \"American\" and \"French,\" thus simultaneously retrospective and anticipatory, she tries to account for their alleged exhaustion and currency on the two sides of the Atlantic. The book is divided into four parts. In the first, the author examines two specifically \"American\" features of gender theories since their earliest formulations: on the one hand, an emphasis on the theatricality of gender (from John Money's early characterization of gender as \"role playing\" to Judith Butler's appropriation of Esther Newton's work on drag queens); on the other, the early adoption of a \"queer\" perspective on gender issues. In the second part, the author reflects on a shift in the rhetoric concerning sexual minorities and politics that is prevalent today. Noting a shift from efforts by oppressed or marginalized segments of the population to make themselves \"heard\" to an emphasis on rendering themselves \"visible,\" she demonstrates the formative role of the American civil rights movement in this new drive to visibility. The third part deals with the travels back and forth across the Atlantic of \"sexual difference,\" ever since its elevation to the status of quasi-concept by psychoanalysis. Tracing the \"queering\" of sexual difference, the author reflects on both the modalities and the effects of this development. The last section addresses the vexing relationship between Western feminism and capitalism. Without trying either to commend or to decry this relationship, the author shows its long-lasting political and cultural effects on current feminist and postfeminist struggles and discourses. To that end, she focuses on one of the intense debates within feminist and postfeminist circles, the controversy over prostitution.
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