Gender Theory in Troubled Times. Rachel Alsop
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Contents
4 Preface
5 Introduction What is gender? Doing gender theory Theoretical shifts Gender essentialism The rise of right-wing populism Gender theory under attack The boundaries of the category ‘woman’ The structure of this book Notes
6 1 The Data of Biology Sexed/gendered difference Sexed categories as natural kinds Psychological and behavioural sex differences and their biological anchorage Evolutionary psychology Male and female brains The sex/gender distinction How many sexes are there? The case of sport Trans bodies and biology Nature/culture and the new materialism Entanglements Notes
7 2 Gendered Psyches: Psychoanalysis and Sexual Difference Psychoanalysis Why Freud? The bodily ego Freud and sexual difference The boy The girl Sexual difference: in summary Reflections Lacan’s three orders Lacan and sexual difference Symbolic essentialism The importance of the Imaginary Luce Irigaray and the feminist imaginary The inevitability of sexual difference? Colonizing gestures Psychoanalysis: race and disability Conclusions Notes
8 3 Historical Materialism Gendered societies From Marxism to Marxist feminism Second-wave Marxist feminism Patriarchy Historical materialism and patriarchy Dual-systems theories and their critique From patriarchy to gender regimes: Walby and Connell Walby on gender Connell on gender Historical materialism and globally connected inequalities Conclusions Notes
9 4 Simone de Beauvoir: Becoming Woman Phenomenology ‘Woman’ as situation The One and the Other Volume 1: The objective conditions The data of biology Economic and social structure Myths Volume II: Lived experience Objectification Living bodily difference Bodily habits Life paths Complicity Dimensions of otherness