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The Biopolitics of Gender

Autor Jemima Repo
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Winner, 2017 International Studies Association's Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section Best Book awardMichel Foucault identified sexuality as one of the defining biopolitical technologies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As Jemima Repo argues in this book, "gender" has come to be the major sexual signifier of the mid-twentieth and early twenty-first century. In fact, in this historical excavation of the biopolitical significance of the term, she argues that it could not have emerged at any other time. Repo shows that gender is not originally a feminist term, but emerged from the study of intersex and transsexual persons in the fields of sexology and psychology in the1950s and 1960s. Prior to the 1950s gender was used to refer to various types of any number of phenomena -- sometimes sex, but not necessarily. Its only regular usage was in linguistics, where it was used to classify nouns as masculine, feminine, or neuter. In the mid-twentieth century, gender shifted from being a nominator of types to designating the sexual order of things. As with sexuality in the Victorian period, over the last sixty years, the notion of gender has become an entire field of knowledge. Feminists famously took up the term in the 1970s to challenge biological determinism, and in government, "women" has been replaced by "gender" in policy-making processes that aim to advance equality between women and men. Gender has also become a key variable in social scientific surveys of different socio-political phenomena like voting, representation, employment, salaries, and parental leave decisions. The Biopolitics of Gender analyzes the strategies and tactics of power involved in the use of "gender" in sexology and psychology, and subsequently its reversal and counter-deployment by feminists in the 1970s and 1980s. It critiques the emergence of gender in demographic science and the implications of this genealogy for feminist theory and politics today. Drawing on a wide variety of historical and contemporary sources, the book makes a major theoretical argument about gender as a historically specific apparatus of biopower and calls into question the emancipatory potential of the category in feminist theory and politics.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190691516
ISBN-10: 0190691514
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 155 x 236 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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The Biopolitics of Gender is an illuminating and important study, which reconfigures many taken-for-granted assumptions about the notion of gender and its role in feminist theory as well as politics. It is essential reading not only for feminist scholars, but also for those engaged in the task of critiquing neoliberal power structures.
A work of critique as emancipatory knowledge-production, this book carves out new openings that must be returned to, expanded upon, deliberated, as we carry on the always precarious work of our entanglements, strategic contingencies, the patient labor of our diverse and unsettled inquiries in the name of unempty dreams."
Given that 'gender is not a synonym for women,' what then does it signify? How have feminist challenges to biological determinism become bureaucratized as capitalist biopolitics and 'state feminisms'? In this provocative genealogical study of gender, Jemima Repo answers these questions and challenges us to 'unlearn' what we think we already know."
In this groundbreaking reappraisal of both Foucault and feminism, Repo shows how gender became an apparatus for the regulation of life processes, and gender equality policy became embedded in governmental, bioeconomic projects to optimize population management. Such projects have, she argues, been fortified by feminism while also relying on disturbing differentiations between women's reproductive worth. Boldly arguing for a provisional suspension of 'all theories of gender,' The Biopolitics of Gender assesses the distribution of inequality constitutive of gender equality."
Gender is a useful category for feminism. However, it is also an instrument of biopower. Gender is a double-edged sword - both critical and normative. Jemima Repo's powerful argument elaborates on Foucault's work to trace the genealogy of gender from the invention of the concept in a medical context in the 1950s through its feminist appropriation in the 1970s to contemporary neoliberal uses of gender equality. This original and important book thus turns the tables around: it makes trouble in gender studies, as feminist politics appear entangled in neoliberal biopolitics."
Consistently attentive to the intersections of sexuality, race, and class, the book will be essential reading for students of political theory, women's studies, and queer theory."
The importance of the questions raised, and careful attention paid to government gender deployments, renders this book invaluable to a vast inter-disciplinary audience. It cautions against accepting macro-level political efforts as non-normative and equal. More academics, especially in the humanities and social sciences, should consider the utility of the biopolitical framework. Repos work may be one of many methodological approaches, but is arguably one of the most robust and powerful in its theoretical breadth and substance.

Notă biografică

Jemima Repo is Lecturer in the Politics of Gender at Newcastle University.