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oapen-20.500.12657-302462023-02-01T09:01:29Z Before and After Gender Strathern, Marilyn Franklin, Sarah Anthropology papua new guinea africa uk united kingdom feminism sex gender Bemba language Division of labour Sexual intercourse Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn Strathern’s Before and After Gender was intended as a widely accessible analysis of gender as a powerful cultural code and sex as a defining mythology. But when the series for which it was written unexpectedly folded, the manuscript went into storage, where it remained for more than four decades. This book finally brings it to light, giving the long-lost feminist work—accompanied here by an afterword from Judith Butler—an overdue spot in feminist history. Strathern incisively engages some of the leading feminist thinkers of the time. Building with characteristic precision toward a bold conclusion in which she argues that we underestimate the materializing grammars of sex and gender at our own peril, she offers a powerful challenge to the intransigent mythologies of sex that still plague contemporary society. The result is a sweeping display of Strathern’s vivid critical thought. 2018-03-01 23:55:55 2020-03-26 03:00:33 2020-04-01T12:49:29Z 2020-04-01T12:49:29Z 2016-05-31 book 648332 OCN: 1038398700 9780986132537 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30246 eng application/pdf n/a 648332.pdf HAU Books 101662 b74962f8-84f3-4d30-ae61-396a70a5d3b0 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780986132537 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Chicago, IL USA 101662 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Written in the early 1970s amidst widespread debate over the causes of gender inequality, Marilyn Strathern’s Before and After Gender was intended as a widely accessible analysis of gender as a powerful cultural code and sex as a defining mythology. But when the series for which it was written unexpectedly folded, the manuscript went into storage, where it remained for more than four decades. This book finally brings it to light, giving the long-lost feminist work—accompanied here by an afterword from Judith Butler—an overdue spot in feminist history. Strathern incisively engages some of the leading feminist thinkers of the time. Building with characteristic precision toward a bold conclusion in which she argues that we underestimate the materializing grammars of sex and gender at our own peril, she offers a powerful challenge to the intransigent mythologies of sex that still plague contemporary society. The result is a sweeping display of Strathern’s vivid critical thought.
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