Gender : a genealogy of an idea

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Label

Gender : a genealogy of an idea

Title remainder

a genealogy of an idea

Statement of responsibility

Jennifer Germon

Creator

• Germon, Jennifer

Subject

• Intersex people
• Feminism
• Gender identity

Language

eng

Summary

"Gender stands as one of the great conceptual devices of the twentieth century. It has becomes such a part of the English language that it seems indispensable today. Yet until the 1950s, gender in English marked relations between words rather than people. Gender: A Genealogy of an Idea represents a critical intervention into the concept of gender. It traces gender's historical specificity from its mid-twentieth century origins in sexology through the present and demonstrates the complex relation that the intersexed have to the concept. In doing so, this text applies a fresh approach to the study of gender as an object of knowledge and embodied experience."--Jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

306.7082

Index

index present

LC call number

HQ1075

LC item number

.G4687 2009

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography