Table Of ContentWHY GENDER?
Whyisafocusongendersoimportantforinterpretingtheworldinwhichwe
live? Sixteenworld-famousscholarshavebeenbroughttogethertoaddress
this question from their respective fields: Political Theory, Philosophy,
Medical Anthropology, Law, Geography, Islamic Studies, Cultural Studies,
PhilosophyofScience,Literature,Psychoanalysis,HistoryofArt,Education
and Economics. The resulting volume covers an extraordinary array of
contexts, ranging from rethinking trans* bodies, to traumatized tribal
communities,tosexualizedviolence,toassistedreproductivetechnologies,
totheimplicationsofepigeneticsforunderstandinggender,andyettheyare
allconnectedbytheirfocusontheimportanceofgenderasacategoryof
analysis. The publication of this volume celebrates the anniversary of the
launchoftheCentreforGenderStudiesattheUniversityofCambridge,and
featurescontributionsfromtheDianeMiddlebrookandCarlDjerassiVisiting
ProfessorstotheUniversity.
JudeBrowneistheJessicaandPeterFrankopanDirectoroftheUniversity
of Cambridge Centre for Gender Studies, Head of the Department of
Politics and International Studies, and Fellow of Social and Political
Sciences,King’sCollege,UniversityofCambridge.
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Contents
ListofFigures pageix
ListofTables x
ListofContributors xi
Foreword:APrefatoryNote xiii
JulietMitchell
Acknowledgements xv
Introduction:WhyGender? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
JudeBrowne
1 GenderinTranslation:BeyondMonolingualism . . . . . . . 15
JudithButler
2 GenderandtheQueer/Trans*Undercommons . . . . . . . 38
JackHalberstam
3 GenderandtheEndofBiologicalDeterminism . . . . . . . 57
JohnDupré
4 Gender,Sexuality,Race,andColonialism . . . . . . . . . . 78
SandraG.Harding
5 PosthumanFeminismandGenderMethodology . . . . . . . 101
RosiBraidotti
6 Gender,SpermTroubles,andAssistedReproductive
Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
MarciaC.Inhorn
7 Gender,Capital,andCare . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
NancyFraser
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8 AspirationManagement:Gender,Race,Class,andtheChild
asWaste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
CindiKatz
9 Gender,RaceandAmericanNationalIdentity:TheFirst
BlackFirstFamily . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
PatriciaHillCollins
10 GenderandtheCollective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
BinaAgarwal
11 Willfulness,Feminism,andtheGenderingofWill . . . . . . 245
SaraAhmed
12 GenderandEmigréPoliticalThought:HannahArendtand
JudithShklar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
SeylaBenhabib
13 FeminismandtheAbominationofViolence:Gender
ThoughtandUnthought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
JacquelineRose
14 Trafficking,Prostitution,andInequality:TheCentralityof
Gender . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
CatharineA.MacKinnon
15 Gender,Revenge,Mutation,andWar . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
AkbarAhmed
16 BedPeaceandGenderAbnorms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
MignonNixon
Index 372
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Figures
Fig2.1 SeeingRed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page48
Fig2.2 boychild . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Fig16.1 ‘BedPeace’ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
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Tables
Table6.1 Fifty-threecisgendermenwithspermtroubles: page132
reprotraveltoConceivefromtwenty-one
countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page132
Table10.1 Typologyofparticipation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Table10.2 PercentageofECmeetingswithwomenattending 228
mixed-genderCFGsinGujarat(India)and
Nepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Table10.3 Femaleattendancerate(mixed-genderCFGs:means) 229
inGujarat(India)andNepal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Table10.4 Annualaveragevalueofoutputperhectare(Rs./ha), 236
andannualaveragenetreturnperfarm,Kerala
(India) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
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