Gender Theory in Troubled Times
Gender Theory in Troubled Times Theorizing gender is more urgent and highly political than ever before. Challenges to fixed, traditional gender norms have paved the way for the recognition of gay…
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Gender Theory in Troubled Times
Theorizing gender is more urgent and highly political than ever before. Challenges to fixed, traditional gender norms have paved the way for the recognition of gay marriage and gender recognition acts allowing people to change the gender assigned to them at birth. These are times, in many countries, of increased visibility of women in public life and high-profile campaigns against sexual violence and harassment.
Refusing a singular 'truth about gender', the authors explore the multiple strands which go into Yet these are also times of religious and political backlash by the alt right, the demonization of the very term 'gender' and a renewed embrace of the 'naturalness' of gendered difference as ordained by God or Science.A follow-up to the authors' 2002 text, Theorizing Gender, this timely and necessary intervention revisits gender theory for contemporary times.