The Biopolitics of Gender

The Biopolitics of Gender
ISBN-10
0190256915
ISBN-13
9780190256913
Category
Political Science
Pages
218
Language
English
Published
2015-10-01
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Author
Jemima Repo

Description

This title provides a theoretically and methodologically new and distinct approach to gender through the frameworks of biopolitics and genealogy, theorising it as a historically specific apparatus of biopower. Through the use of a diverse mix of historical and contemporary documents, the book explores how the problematisation of intersex infant genitalia in 1950s psychiatry propelled the emergence of the gender apparatus in order to socialise sexed individuals into the ideal productive and reproductive subjects of White, middle-class postwar America.

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