Beyond Gender: An Advanced Introduction to Futures of Feminist and Sexuality Studies

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Cover Half Title Book Title Copyright Table of Contents Notes on contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: beyond gender – toward a decolonized queer feminist future Gender’s ascendancy The now of feminisms The simultaneity of decolonized queer feminisms and sexuality activism Queer/trans and sexuality studies How to use this handbook Notes Works cited Part I Undoing gender studies Theoretical positionings 1 The rise and fall (and rise) of Mars and Venus in language and gender research Editor’s introduction Author’s introduction Introduction Phase 1 (1970s and 1980s) Phase 2 (1980s and 1990s) Phase 3: challenges at the turn of the century Re-emerging binaries? Final words on Mars and Venus Notes Works cited 2 Masculinity studies: contemporary approaches and alternative perspectives Editor’s introduction Author’s introduction Introduction Charting the field of masculinity studies: a short survey Problematizing the field of masculinity studies: the question of the body, female masculinities, and ‘something queer within masculinity’ Alternative perspectives I: transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches Alternative perspectives II: comparative masculinity studies Alternative perspectives III: transgender and intersex studies Possible future(s) of masculinity studies Acknowledgment Notes Works cited 3 Where are we going, where have we been, where do we return to, repeatedly? The seriality of feminist critique and gender studies Editor’s introduction Author’s introduction Introduction Approximating seriality Seriality in fiction on gender violence Feminism and gender studies as serial process Reloading feminism, undoing gender (studies)? Notes Works cited 4 “Slavery to an assembly line is not a liberation from slavery to the kitchen sink”: assessing social reproduction theory’s challenge to liberal–feminist and classical–Marxist paradigms Editor’s introduction Author’s introduction Introduction Beyond economism “Wages for Housework” and the domestic labor debate ‘Beyond’ domestic labor Social reproduction theory today Notes Works cited 5 Modes of being vs. categories: queering the tools of intersectionality Editor’s introduction Authors’ introduction Introduction Identity trouble Intersectionality hype Modes of being Notes Works cited Part II Forms of practice: doing the ‘after’ of gender studies 6 Fictions of sexual amnesia Editor’s introduction Author’s introduction Introduction Forgetting about sex: an agenda for gender studies Degendering authorship Sexual metamorphosis Characters of indeterminate sex Resistance to gender indifference Implications for the future of gender studies Notes Works cited 7 Loving feminism: negotiating differences in the classroom Editor’s introduction Author’s introduction Sniffing the air for signs of a feminist spring Opening moves: negotiating differences The trouble with difference Commonality as a basis for feminist agendas Another feminist past: the German case Local observations The postfeminist present From analysis to agency Notes Works cited Syllabus 8 Unseemly desire: disciplining and othering the sexuality of women in later life Editor’s introduction Author’s introduction Introduction Demonization Desexualization Abjection Commodification Conclusion Notes Works cited 9 The politics of neoliberal postfeminist bridal culture Editor’s introduction Author’s introduction Introduction Postfeminism Postfemininities and the ‘modern’ bride Conclusion Notes Works cited 10 Small-screen tweenage angst: feminist icons and (anti-)heroines in twenty-first century American popular culture Editor’s introduction Author’s introduction Introducing Barrett, Rusty […] With quality comes great responsibility: engage us! The proliferation of roles and role models for women, queer, and trans* identities “Not that kind of girl” and all the more so […]: Lena Dunham’s feminist iconicity Conclusion: pluralization ≠ diversity Notes Works cited 11 The “yes” which is not one: consent, the law, and the limits of false consciousness feminism Editor’s introduction Author’s introduction Introduction Sex, consent, and the social contract Consent, feminism, and the law Conclusion Notes Works cited 12 Autonomous Sri Lankan women’s organizations and their engagements with LBT advocacy Editor’s introduction Author’s introduction Introduction Background to the study Methodology Perceptions Advocacy role Conclusion Notes Works cited 13 “It’s a space shuttle!” Opening up queer* spaces through the performing arts Editor’s introduction Authors’ introduction Introduction B_oops: a cabaret Welcome Holding hands The public space as a political space Visibility Queer spaces as architectural as well as safe spaces Conclusion Prospects: “welcome to our space shuttle!” Picture credit Notes Works cited Index