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Date Added to Site: 15th November 2006 |
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Short Summary
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Gender Politics: Citizenship, Activism and Sexual Diversity
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Surya, M |
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January 2005 |
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Pluto Press |
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Short Summary
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'Is it possible to move beyond the male-female gender binary system?' This book begins with this question. It seeks answers from theoretical debates, as well as from research done by the author on populations in the UK who do not easily fit these gender binaries: intersex people who do not match the medical criteria for male or female at birth; transgender people who identify as neither male or female; transsexuals who may wish to identify as male or female but whose bodies and legal identities do not initially match the sex category they feel fits them best; bisexuals whose desire is not limited to one sex category; and sadomasochists and fetishists whose sexual desires may also disrupt gender binaries. An important part of the argument is that gender binaries are problematic, not only for those who are intersex, transgender and bisexual. Monro challenges the 'sex is biological, gender is social' mantra that we are so fond of in the Gender and Development world. She makes the case that sex categories are also in part constructed by social and political forces, and that these categories fail to account for the reality of human diversity around sexuality.
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