Gender in Real Time: Power and Transience in a Visual Age

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Overview

After decades of innovative scholarship that galvanized a field and shattered a world of preconceptions, the study of gender now appears to languish. It has been a long while since the publication of a provocative and influential text like Judith Butler's Gender Trouble. Kath Weston argues that the problem is one of time. For too long gender studies has been preoccupied with the visual, with ample attention given to issues of performativity and embodiment, all at the expense of time.
Gender in Real Time makes a provocative and important new argument that will revolutionize the field of gender studies. Introducing temporality into the equation and examining the ways gender exists, Weston uses the tools of political economy, the history of mathematics, Darwinian evolution, and a bit of physics to propel gender studies toward the future. Startling new concepts like "zero gender" and the meaning of time claims are introduced. Moreover, the impact of our time-sensitive society, with its ever-increasing need for speed and accelerated development, is explored for its effect on the production of gender. With chapter titles including, Unsexed, The Ghosts of Gender Past, and The Global Economy Next Time, this book offers a pioneering addition to the field that will forever change our notion of gender.
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Editorial Reviews

Arlene Stein
Provocative...mines a vast array of different literatures...a unique interdisciplinary and theoretical sweep.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780415934534
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publication date: 9/28/2002
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Pages: 208
  • Age range: 18 years
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Meet the Author

Kath Weston is the Director of the Women's Studies program at Harvard University and is the author of Render Me, Gender Me, Long Slow Burn (Routledge, 1998) and Families We Chose, which won the Ruth Benedict Prize in Anthropology.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface: Now Boarding: The Starship Gender
Ch. 1 What the Cat Dragged In: Gender Studies Today - an Elegy and Introduction 1
Ch. 2 Unsexed: A Zero Concept for Gender Studies 25
Ch. 3 Do Clothes Make the Woman?: Performing In and Out of Industrial Time 57
Ch. 4 The Ghosts of Gender Past: Time Claims, Memory, and Modernity 91
Ch. 5 The Global Economy Next Time: When Genders are not Enough 127
Notes 143
References 167
Index 191
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    Incredibly In- Depth and Surreal

    This book among many has become the focal point of my philosophical mind, invoking thought and intuition.

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