200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
The Gender Binary and the Invention of Race explores a fundamental and often overlooked connection between modern European conceptions of gender and race. Starting in the eighteenth century, these conceptions have intermeshed through a racialized gender‑binary ideal for the male‑female couple that, supposedly, only Europeans embody.
Through an exploration of various expressions of this racial... Read more
Introduction 1. Binary sex and its skeptics 2. Whiteness: Gender-binary from the start 3. Making (male) homosexuality white 4. Orientalism and the gender-binary ideal in The Second Sex 5. Intersectionality and the racial gender-binary ideal Afterword
Biography
Sally Markowitz is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Willamette University and the co‑founder of Willamette’s Women’s Studies program. She has taught philosophy and gender studies for many years, and her articles and reviews in the fields of aesthetics, feminism, and gender studies have appeared in a variety of academic journals and anthologies.
