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The biopolitics of gender /

This title provides a theoretically and methodologically new and distinct approach to gender through the frameworks of biopolitics and genealogy, theorising it as a historically specific apparatus of biopower. Through the use of a diverse mix of historical and contemporary documents, the book explor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Repo, Jemima (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Sex role.
Power (Social sciences)
Feminism.
Neoliberalism.
Rôle selon le sexe.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales)
Féminisme.
Néo-libéralisme.
sex role.
feminism.
History & Theory.
POLITICAL SCIENCE.
Public Policy.
Gender Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE.
Feminism
Neoliberalism
Sex role
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This title provides a theoretically and methodologically new and distinct approach to gender through the frameworks of biopolitics and genealogy, theorising it as a historically specific apparatus of biopower. Through the use of a diverse mix of historical and contemporary documents, the book explores how the problematisation of intersex infant genitalia in 1950s psychiatry propelled the emergence of the gender apparatus in order to socialise sexed individuals into the ideal productive and reproductive subjects of White, middle-class postwar America.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780190256937
0190256931
9780190492649
0190492643