Abraham Weil - Böcker

This second edition of A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory includes new chapters on sexuality and dis/ability; animal sex and species boundaries; queer necropolitics and queer kinship that focus on key contemporary debates, writers, practices and texts. Existing chapters on topics such as race and trans have been substantially updated to include shifts in both theory and practice that have occurred since the publication of the first edition. Key concepts such as identity politics, heteronormativity, homonationalism, materiality and transsomatechnics are discussed at length. This revised edition maintains the original interdisciplinary focus of the first edition and will be relevant to those working in disciplines as diverse as Media Studies, Cultural Studies and Philosophy, Early Childhood Education and Sociobiology.

This second edition of A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory includes new chapters on sexuality and dis/ability; animal sex and species boundaries; queer necropolitics and queer kinship that focus on key contemporary debates, writers, practices and texts. Existing chapters on topics such as race and trans have been substantially updated to include shifts in both theory and practice that have occurred since the publication of the first edition. Key concepts such as identity politics, heteronormativity, homonationalism, materiality and transsomatechnics are discussed at length. This revised edition maintains the original interdisciplinary focus of the first edition and will be relevant to those working in disciplines as diverse as Media Studies, Cultural Studies and Philosophy, Early Childhood Education and Sociobiology.

Feminist Studies: An Introductory Reader offers a unique approach to teaching and learning feminist thought.Crafted with the movement and translation of ideas in mind, this book is broken into four sections: Feminist Epistemologies, Feminist Ontologies, Feminist Orientations, and Resistance. Each chapter includes two well-known classic texts that commonly appear in Feminist Studies classes as well as two new texts written by scholars who engage, critique, and extend those ideas in their work. In addition, the book is accompanied by a companion website, which includes discussion questions, assignment ideas, lesson plans, and other materials useful for classroom instruction.Feminist Studies: An Introductory Reader is designed for those new to feminism as well as more seasoned feminist thinkers. It is an ideal resource for students in introductory and advanced feminist theory courses, as well as those interested in social scientific and humanistic inquiry more broadly.

Feminist Studies: An Introductory Reader offers a unique approach to teaching and learning feminist thought.Crafted with the movement and translation of ideas in mind, this book is broken into four sections: Feminist Epistemologies, Feminist Ontologies, Feminist Orientations, and Resistance. Each chapter includes two well-known classic texts that commonly appear in Feminist Studies classes as well as two new texts written by scholars who engage, critique, and extend those ideas in their work. In addition, the book is accompanied by a companion website, which includes discussion questions, assignment ideas, lesson plans, and other materials useful for classroom instruction.Feminist Studies: An Introductory Reader is designed for those new to feminism as well as more seasoned feminist thinkers. It is an ideal resource for students in introductory and advanced feminist theory courses, as well as those interested in social scientific and humanistic inquiry more broadly.

What is gender? What should gender look like in the 21st century? This book brings together philosophy with insights from feminist and transgender theory to argue for gender pluralism: that there should be more than two genders, and that each gender term should have multiple meanings. Developing an explicitly political version of conceptual engineering, What Gender Should Be contains novel and powerful arguments both against existing theories of gender such as family resemblance accounts and against gender abolition, underlining how each is insufficient for thinking about and doing justice to contemporary transgender identities and politics. Instead, Matthew J. Cull argues that we should be pluralists about gender, putting forward and advocating for a position that is more apt for contemporary transgender and feminist activism. The 21st century requires a new way of thinking about gender. What Gender Should Be sets out to provide it.

Providing the first introduction to the key scholars, theories and debates in trans studies, Transgender Theory is an expansive and inclusive contribution to a nascent field. Each chapter offers a distinct and interconnected perspective on the various intersections of transgender lives and struggles around the world. From its prehistory (before the term transgender was common currency) through to the latest scholarship, the book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of trans scholarship. The narrative is deepened through the co-authors' (one a trans woman the other a trans man) personal perspectives and insights on being trans / becoming woman and man. The book speaks directly to those who are questioning their designated gender, coming out as trans or non-binary or, like the authors, undergoing an unending process of gender transition, a transition without destination.

Providing the first introduction to the key scholars, theories and debates in trans studies, Transgender Theory is an expansive and inclusive contribution to a nascent field. Each chapter offers a distinct and interconnected perspective on the various intersections of transgender lives and struggles around the world. From its prehistory (before the term transgender was common currency) through to the latest scholarship, the book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of trans scholarship. The narrative is deepened through the co-authors' (one a trans woman the other a trans man) personal perspectives and insights on being trans / becoming woman and man. The book speaks directly to those who are questioning their designated gender, coming out as trans or non-binary or, like the authors, undergoing an unending process of gender transition, a transition without destination.

For decades, trans studies and queer theory have treated the trans body as a theoretical construct – a site for identity, dysphoria, and gender politics – leaving erotic realities largely unexamined. Desire, pleasure, and real sex has been pushed to the margins, rendered almost unspeakable.This book challenges that silence. It asks why sexuality – once a privileged site of inquiry in queer theory – has all but vanished from trans scholarship, and what this erasure reveals about the politics of respectability, cisnormativity, and the lingering discomfort with bodies that refuse to behave “properly.”Through rigorous analysis and intimate narrative, the book explores how bodies do things – and how different bodies do different things – shaping possibilities for desire, sensation, and intimacy. It interrogates the cultural and academic forces that have de-sexed trans subjects, examines the aesthetic and linguistic struggles around naming and eroticizing trans bodies, and charts a path toward a trans studies that embraces the messy, fleshy, and truly human dimensions of sexuality.Both provocative and personal, this book insists that there can be no real account of gender without a reckoning with sex. It is a call to bring pleasure back into the conversation – not as an afterthought, but as a vital site of knowledge, resistance, and joy.

For decades, trans studies and queer theory have treated the trans body as a theoretical construct – a site for identity, dysphoria, and gender politics – leaving erotic realities largely unexamined. Desire, pleasure, and real sex has been pushed to the margins, rendered almost unspeakable.This book challenges that silence. It asks why sexuality – once a privileged site of inquiry in queer theory – has all but vanished from trans scholarship, and what this erasure reveals about the politics of respectability, cisnormativity, and the lingering discomfort with bodies that refuse to behave “properly.”Through rigorous analysis and intimate narrative, the book explores how bodies do things – and how different bodies do different things – shaping possibilities for desire, sensation, and intimacy. It interrogates the cultural and academic forces that have de-sexed trans subjects, examines the aesthetic and linguistic struggles around naming and eroticizing trans bodies, and charts a path toward a trans studies that embraces the messy, fleshy, and truly human dimensions of sexuality.Both provocative and personal, this book insists that there can be no real account of gender without a reckoning with sex. It is a call to bring pleasure back into the conversation – not as an afterthought, but as a vital site of knowledge, resistance, and joy.