Genders 21: Forming and Reforming Identity - Softcover

Carol Siegel; Ann M. Kibbey

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814780075 ISBN 13: 9780814780077

Publisher: NYU Press, 1995

Synopsis

Forming and Reforming Identity exposes the historical sites of identity formation and seeks to define the mechanisms of modern-day gender ideologies. Illuminating the power of the family and state in shaping gender identities, the book also examines the constitution of these identities. Each chapter reveals the complexities and contradictions that inevitably accompany the formation of any new category of identity, whether they are deliberately restrictive or intended as a reformation of the old.

The volume moves, as gender construction does, across a field of different media: novels, plays, teleplays, films, official documents, political theory, and advertisements. Four sections—REMOLDING WOMAN; REBELLING MAN; HOMEMADE IDENTITIES; and FEMINISMS THAT MAKE (A) DIFFERENCE—address such subjects as the representation of American women in the 1950s; nationalism and respectable sexuality in India; women, Hollywood cinema, and World War II; compulsory heterophobia; and the televising of AIDS.
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About this title

Review:

"Double Jeopardy is a major contribution to several fields, including legal history, criminal law, and jurisprudence." -"Choice",

"The best book there is on modern day double jeopardy doctrine."-James B. Jacobs, New York University

About the Author:

Carol Siegel is Associate Professor of English at Washington State University, Vancouver and author of Lawrence Among the Women: Wavering Boundaries in Women's Literary Traditions and Male Masochism: Modern Revisions of the Story of Love.

About this edition

• Publisher: NYU Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0814780075
• ISBN 13: 9780814780077
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 382