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Deviations de Gayle S. Rubin

Deviations

Autor Gayle S. Rubin
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 noi 2011

Evoluția studiilor despre sexualitate a marcat trecerea de la marginalitate academică la un pilon central al științelor sociale, proces în care contribuțiile teoretice au redefinit constant conceptele de gen și putere. În acest context, volumul Deviations de Gayle S Rubin reprezintă o resursă esențială pentru înțelegerea fundamentelor teoriei queer și ale antropologiei sexualității. Apreciem modul în care această ediție colectează eseuri care au schimbat paradigme, precum „The Traffic in Women” (1975) și „Thinking Sex” (1984), oferind în același timp un aparat critic care explică contextul lor istoric și intelectual. Observăm că Deviations funcționează ca o alternativă coerentă la antologia The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader de Henry Abelove pentru cursurile de sociologie și studii de gen, având avantajul unei voci unitare care urmărește transformarea discursului despre sexualitate pe parcursul a patru decenii. Dacă antologia lui Abelove oferă o privire de ansamblu prin multiple perspective, volumul lui Rubin permite o analiză aprofundată a metodologiei unei singure cercetătoare care a influențat decisiv dezbaterile despre pornografie, BDSM și politicile feministe. Ritmul textelor este unul academic, riguros, dar marcat de o claritate conceptuală care face accesibile subiecte complexe de istorie socială. Structura volumului nu este doar o simplă arhivă, ci o reconstrucție a unei istorii intelectuale ce recunoaște rolul esențial jucat de mediul academic în legitimarea acestor studii. Recomandăm această lucrare pentru rigoarea cu care tratează intersecția dintre antropologie și politicile identitare, fiind o piesă de bază în curriculumul disciplinelor ce vizează relațiile sexuale și structurile de rudenie.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822349860
ISBN-10: 0822349868
Pagini: 504
Ilustrații: 4 drawings
Dimensiuni: 156 x 240 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Duke University Press

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Recomandăm Deviations oricărui student sau cercetător în sociologie și studii de gen care dorește să exploreze textele sursă ale teoriei queer. Cititorul câștigă acces la o analiză istorică precisă a modului în care sexualitatea a devenit subiect de cercetare științifică, volumul fiind un instrument indispensabil pentru a înțelege dezbaterile feministe contemporane și evoluția drepturilor identitare.

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Deviations is the definitive collection of writing by Gayle S. Rubin, a pioneering theorist and activist in feminist, lesbian and gay, queer, and sexuality studies since the 1970s. Rubin first rose to prominence in 1975 with the publication of “The Traffic in Women,” an essay that had a galvanizing effect on feminist thinking and theory. In another landmark piece, “Thinking Sex,” she examined how certain sexual behaviours are constructed as moral or natural, and others as unnatural. That essay became one of queer theory’s foundational texts. Along with such canonical work, Deviations features less well-known but equally insightful writing on subjects such as lesbian history, the feminist sex wars, the politics of sadomasochism, crusades against prostitution and pornography, and the historical development of sexual knowledge. In the introduction, Rubin traces her intellectual trajectory and discusses the development and reception of some of her most influential essays. Like the book it opens, the introduction highlights the major lines of inquiry pursued for nearly forty years by a singularly important theorist of sex, gender, and culture.

Recenzii

"This book brings together a canonical collection of her writing, but it is more than a reader: she rewrites the genealogy of sexuality studies, giving us a precise intellectual history of sexuality studies that recognises the pivotal role played by academic homosexuals other than the now-feted and individuated Michel Foucault. She reminds us that British sociologists such as Mary McIntosh, Jeffrey Weeks and Ken Plummer, as well as American gay historians including Esther Newton, Jeffrey Escoffier, Martha Vicinus, John D'Emilio and Jonathan Ned Katz and many more besides, ploughed this new field." Sally R. Munt, Times Higher Education
"It is rare to find an intellectual who founded an entire field of sexuality studies, whose theoretical contributions have been so far-reaching, and who continues to make rich, surprising, and singular interventions. These are the essays that riveted generations and claim our attention time and again. Gayle S. Rubin gives us the material life of sexual categories, lucid and careful argumentation, extraordinary and unprecedented archives. This brilliant collection is a gift for anyone who wants to follow the formidable trajectory of the most exacting and influential intellectual of sexuality studies.” Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor, Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley

"Deviations offers up articles that shaped the thinking of the modern feminist LGBT movements, while contextualizing the gradual institutionalization and canonization of sexuality studies. In providing the opportunity to think through the history of American feminism, including the radicalization of feminist debates on sexuality, Deviations provides an impetus for "thinking sex" even more critically." Svati P. Shah, Women's Review of Books, November/December 2012

"Gayle S. Rubin has been breaking new intellectual ground around gender and sexuality for almost four decades. This collection of essays lets us see in one place the breadth, depth, and profound originality of her thinking. It’s a wonder to behold. As I reread some familiar pieces and encountered some new ones, I was reminded how much I am in her debt.” John D’Emilio, co-author of Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America

"Foundational essays and commentary from America’s preeminent queer feminist intellectual; a must-have for any scholar and every library.” Esther Newton, author of Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas
"Gayle S. Rubin has had an incalculable impact on the study of gender and sexuality over the past 35 years. Rubin’s work changed the very language and vocabulary with which we discuss sexuality and gender. She coined the terms "sex/gender system” to describe "the set of arrangements by which a society transforms biological sexuality into products of human activity” and the "Charmed Circle,” which describes the normative sexual behaviors our society privileges over the marginalized practices of the queer minority. Rubin’s pioneering research on gay leather communities legitimized the anthropological study of sexual subcultures and her participation in the first known lesbian S/M group, Samois, and pro-sex activism helped to de-stigmatize pornography and S/M practices in the 80s when the anti-pornography movement was at its height. In short, Gayle S. Rubin is a living legend whose writing, research, and activism both chronicled and inspired LGBT culture as we know it today.... I found Rubin’s openness, both as a private individual revealing the personal context of her research and as a scholar taking stock of her life’s work to be a rare and valuable look inside the life of an intellectual of her magnitude. Coming from a discipline like anthropology that stresses objectivity and the erasure of the observer, Gayle S. Rubin’s reader re-inscribes the personal and the human into academic study and portrays a comprehensive history of the LGBT community through the life and words of one of its most original thinkers and meticulous chroniclers." Chase Dimock, Lambda Literary Review, January 2012

"A collection of academic essays on sex, gender and politics from pioneering queer theory and activist Rubin, covering a range of topics including pornography as a focus of feminist rage, punitive US sex laws and the seemingly inexhaustible topic of gender boundaries.” - Diva Magazine, April 2012

"Finally: a collection of Gayle Rubin’s writings. It is long overdue and sorely needed. For those who don’t know Rubin, she is a professor of anthropology and women’s studies at the University of Michigan. More significantly, she is one of America’s most original thinkers about sexuality, especially radical lesbian sexuality. For those who’ve followed her intellectual journey over the last few decades, it’s good to see many of her published articles collected in a single (though hefty) volume." David Rosen, The Brooklyn Rail, June 2012

Descriere

This volume collects Gayle Rubin's essays covering topics ranging from BDSM to feminist debates on pornography and sex to lesbian and gay history. Rubin’s introduction gives a history and context to this pioneering and much anticipated work.