Sexual Difference

Sexual Difference
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1990
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

A history of feminism and women's rights in Italy. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Sexual Difference

Sexual Difference
Author: Stephen Frosh
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1994
Genre: Identification (Psychology)
ISBN: 0415068444

This critical exploration of issues of gender in psychoanalysis acknowledges and updates the complexity of theory and writing in this area, particularly the way sexual differences can only be thought about from a gendered position.

An Ethics of Sexual Difference

An Ethics of Sexual Difference
Author: Luce Irigaray
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2005-02-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780826477125

Luce Irigaray (1932-) is the foremost thinker on sexual difference of our times. In An Ethics of Sexual Difference Irigaray speaks out against many feminists by pursuing questions of sexual difference, arguing that all thought and language is gendered and that there can therefore be no neutral thought. Examining major philosophers, such as Plato, Spinoza and Levinas, with a series of meditations on the female experience, she advocates new philosophies through which women can develop a distinctly female space and a "love of self". It is an essential feminist text and a major contribution to our thinking about language.

Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference

Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference
Author: Deborah L. Rhode
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780300052251

Essays cover historical, sociological, psychological and anthropological approaches, ethics and politics, and the policy implications of the real and perceived differences between the sexes

Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference

Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference
Author: Linell E. Cady
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2013-11-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0231162480

Global struggles over women’s roles, rights, and dress have taken center stage in a drama that casts the secular and the religious in tense if not violent opposition. Advocates for equality speak of the issue in terms of rights and modern progress while reactionaries ground their authority in religious and scriptural appeals. Both sides presume women’s emancipation is tied to secularization. This volume upsets these certainties by blending diverse voices and traditions, both secular and religious, in studies historicizing, questioning, and testing the implicit links between secularism and expanded freedoms for women. Rather than treat secularism as the answer to conflicts over gender and sexuality, these essays show how it structures the conditions generating them.

The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory

The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory
Author: Lisa Disch
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1088
Release: 2018-02-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0190623616

The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory provides a rich overview of the analytical frameworks and theoretical concepts that feminist theorists have developed to analyze the known world. Featuring leading feminist theorists from diverse regions of the globe, this collection delves into forty-nine subject areas, demonstrating the complexity of feminist challenges to established knowledge, while also engaging areas of contestation within feminist theory. Demonstrating the interdisciplinary nature of feminist theory, the chapters offer innovative analyses of topics central to social and political science, cultural studies and humanities, discourses associated with medicine and science, and issues in contemporary critical theory that have been transformed through feminist theorization. The handbook identifies limitations of key epistemic assumptions that inform traditional scholarship and shows how theorizing from women's and men's lives has profound effects on the conceptualization of central categories, whether the field of analysis is aesthetics, biology, cultural studies, development, economics, film studies, health, history, literature, politics, religion, science studies, sexualities, violence, or war.

Creation and Covenant

Creation and Covenant
Author: Christopher Roberts
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2008-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567269671

Does sexual difference matter for marriage? Are there good theological reasons why the two main characters in a marriage should be a male and a female, or is marriage a more flexible covenant, which any two people can keep? Creation and Covenant analyzes latent but under-examined beliefs about sexual difference in the theology about marriage which has been dominant for centuries in the Christian west. The book opens by studying patristic theologies of marriage, which rested on mostly implicit and often incompatible beliefs about sexual difference. However, Roberts argues that Augustine developed a coherent theology of sexual difference, according it a shifting significance from creation to eschaton. Roberts traces how Augustine's theology influenced and was developed by subsequent theologians, such as Bernard of Clairvaux, Luther, Barth, and John Paul II. Finally, Roberts engages today's debates about gay marriage. Before becoming an academic, Dr. Roberts was a journalist. On behalf of PBS television, he covered both the Lambeth Conference in England and the World Council of Churches in Zimbabwe. During those years, he was disappointed by both the liberal and conservative arguments on homosexuality. Left-wingers seemed more interested in privacy, autonomy, and experience than in theology, and right-wingers seemed to have lots of prohibitions but little good news. In the final chapters, this book tries to do better, inviting liberals to improve the standard of their arguments, and explaining what is beautiful and persuasive about the traditional case.

Writing and Sexual Difference

Writing and Sexual Difference
Author: Elizabeth Abel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 315
Release: 1982
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780226000763

Essays discuss feminist criticism, attitudes toward sexual difference, female identity, and the works of Eliot and Stein

What Is Sexual Difference?

What Is Sexual Difference?
Author: Mary C. Rawlinson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2023-06-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0231554680

Luce Irigaray has written that “sexual difference is one of the major philosophical issues, if not the issue, of our age.” Spanning metaphysics, phenomenology, and psychoanalysis, her work examines how sexual difference structures being and subjectivity, organizes our experience of the world, and affects the images and discourses involved in knowledge production and practical action. No other philosopher has paid such careful attention to the consequences of the elision of sexual difference in philosophical thought. However, at a time when notions of sexual and gender difference are hotly contested, Irigaray’s thought has often been dismissed as essentialist or reductively binary. This book brings together leading scholars to consider the philosophical implications of Irigaray’s writing on sexual difference, particularly for issues of gender and race. Their essays directly confront the charge of essentialism, exploring how Irigaray’s thought opens new possibilities for understanding the complexity of gender identities, including nonbinary and trans experiences as well as alternative configurations of masculinity and femininity. Though Irigaray is sometimes accused of a failure to appreciate racial difference, contributors show the productive role of her work in thinking race. This book also illuminates how Irigaray’s work provides creative practices that help realign human experience and our relations with nature and each other.