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Gender, Sexuality and Subjectivity: A Lacanian Perspective on Identity, Language and Queer Theory book cover

1st Edition

Gender, Sexuality and Subjectivity A Lacanian Perspective on Identity, Language and Queer Theory

By Duane Rousselle Copyright 2020
112 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

112 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

112 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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. Within each gender paradigm there are unacknowledged truths. The controversial claim of this book is that queer... Read more

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

Biography

Duane Rousselle, PhD, is a clinical psychoanalyst of the Lacanian orientation and Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Theory. He has published numerous books including Jacques Lacan & American Sociology: Be Wary of the Image (Palgrave, 2019), Lacanian Realism: Political and Clinical Psychoanalysis (Bloomsbury, 2018), and Post-Anarchism: A Reader (Pluto Press, 2012).

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