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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780823253883
035 _a(DE-B1597)555474
035 _a(OCoLC)1019666557
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082 0 4 _a305.4201
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBerger, Anne Emmanuelle
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Queer Turn in Feminism :
_bIdentities, Sexualities, and the Theater of Gender /
_cAnne Emmanuelle Berger.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bFordham University Press,
_c[2013]
264 4 _c©2013
300 _a1 online resource (240 p.)
336 _atext
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aCommonalities
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tAcknowledgments --
_t1 Parabasis (Before the Act) --
_t2 Queens and Queers: The Theater of Gender in “America” --
_t3 Paradoxes of Visibility in / and Contemporary Identity Politics --
_t4 The Ends of an Idiom, or Sexual Difference in Translation --
_t5 Roxana’s Legacy: Feminism and Capitalism in the West --
_tNotes --
_tWorks Cited --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aMore 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023)
650 0 _aFeminist theory.
650 0 _aGender identity.
650 0 _aQueer theory.
650 4 _aGender & Sexuality.
650 4 _aPhilosophy & Theory.
650 4 _aQueer Theory.
650 7 _aPHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics.
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700 1 _aPorter, Catherine
_eautore
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780823253883?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823253883
856 4 2 _3Cover
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