The Biopolitics of Gender
Download or Read eBook The Biopolitics of Gender PDF written by Jemima Repo and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2016 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Author | : Jemima Repo |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 2016 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780190256913 |
ISBN-13 | : 0190256915 |
Rating | : 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Biopolitics of Gender by : Jemima Repo
Book excerpt: This title provides a theoretically and methodologically new and distinct approach to gender through the frameworks of biopolitics and genealogy, theorising it as a historically specific apparatus of biopower. Through the use of a diverse mix of historical and contemporary documents, the book explores how the problematisation of intersex infant genitalia in 1950s psychiatry propelled the emergence of the gender apparatus in order to socialise sexed individuals into the ideal productive and reproductive subjects of White, middle-class postwar America.