Agha Law, Politics and the Gender Binary

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-04698-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 118 Seiten

The distinction between male and female, or masculinity and femininity, has long been considered as foundational to society and the organization of its institutions. In the last decades, the massive literature on gender has challenged this discursive construction. Gender has been disassembled and reassembled, variously considered as social practice, performance, ideology. Yet, the binary relationship man/woman continues to be a characteristic trait of Western societies. This book gathers together contributions by experts in various fields – including law, sociology, philosophy and anthropology – to pin down the relation between institutions and the gender binary. Centrally, it examines the way in which the present-day gender binary is shored up by the conceptualization and regulation of sex and gender at a societal and institutional level. Based on this examination, it tackles the issue of what the practices and processes of subjectivation are that preserve this binary distinction as the foundation of gender. Each of the chapters discuss this pressing question with a view to considering if current equality policies challenge hierarchical and hegemonic understandings of gender, or if they are the residue of a sexist understanding of gender. This analysis then paves the way for a more general and crucial question: whether institutions can, or should contribute to the process of deconstructing the gender binary.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Agha, Petr

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Rechtssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter 1. Whatever Happened to the Woman of the Gender Binary? Some Reflections upon Feminism and Institutions, Maria Drakopoulou

Chapter 2. The Politicization of Sexuality, Ingrid Salvatore

Chapter 3. Territorializing Gender, Valeria Venditti

Chapter 4. Can Human Rights Exist Without Gender? LGBTI Issues and the Council of Europe, Francesca Romana Ammaturo

Chapter 5. Linguistic Traps: Identity and Differences through Institutions, Carlotta Cossutta

Chapter 6. Subjectivity, Gender and Agency, Petr Agha

Chapter 7. How the Inheritance System Thinks? Queering Kinship, Gender and Care in the Legal Sphere, Antu Sorainen

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Petr Agha is based at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic