Gender Sexuality and Subjectivity

<p>Offering a concise yet comprehensive introduction to gender theory, this thought-provoking new book aims to make an intervention into the contemporary American paradigm of thinking gender and sexuality and offers a powerful challenge to the paradigm of social constructionism. </p><p>Within each gender paradigm there are unacknowledged truths. The controversial claim of this book is that queer theory and intersectionality – and, more broadly, the social constructionist paradigm – have reached a limit. Indeed, it is possible that they are becoming regressive political gestures. However, there are possibilities of moving forward in this new area of transformation and Rousselle claims that a new logic of gender invention is opening up a new paradigm of thought. </p><p>Part of the popular Routledge Focus on Mental Health series, this book will be of immense value to students and teachers who aim to understand in a basic way some of the various main paradigms, theories, and concepts within gender and sexuality studies. It will also be an important attempt to think beyond those paradigms and theories. </p> <p>01. Gender meta-theory: an in(ter)vention 02. Theory as an antidote to chaos 03. Thinking gender as a Marxist: foundational ideas 04. The social construction of gender: the case of queer theory 05. Situating paradigms: from intersectionality to citational practices 06. Interrogating intersectionality 07. Psychoanalysis and gender: the Mobius strip 08. Subject formations 09. Trans* inventions: from anxiety to certainty</p>