Search Results for sex/gender

... to the twentieth-century notion of gender as developed by sexologists. Tracing commonalities across these distinct periods, the chapter exposes affect to lie at the core of humanism's sensory-energetic regime. To understand the intersecting dynamic of the notions of race and sex difference requires interrogating...

... Chapter 4 investigates how sexuality and gender organize the lives of low-income young Black women by describing the ways in which ideas regarding normative and deviant sexuality and appropriate and dysfunctional gendered expressions circulate in the shelter. The intersection of class...

... This chapter concerns the scientific proof of transsexual nature , a term used in the legal codes on transsexuality in Turkey. The first part of the chapter examines the scientific history of the contemporary regulation of sex/gender nonconformity and transness by situating the medicolegal...

...“Marlene has Sex but No Gender” ...

...Boundaries of Sex and Gender ...

... This essay argues against the tendency of advocates for sex and justice to divide their movements up into separate, tightly enclosed, and isolated silos. It endorses instead what Vatican officials call a “gender agenda.” The Vatican sees a tight connection between and among all the components...

... This essay draws upon recent works in sociology, jurisprudence, and feminist theory in order to assess the ways in which feminism, and sex and gender more generally, have become intricately interwoven with punitive agendas in contemporary U.S. politics. Melding existing theoretical discussions...