Book contents
- Why Gender?
- Why Gender?
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- A Prefatory Note
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Gender in Translation: Beyond Monolingualism
- Chapter 2 Gender and the Queer/Trans* Undercommons
- Chapter 3 Gender and the End of Biological Determinism
- Chapter 4 Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Colonialism
- Chapter 5 Posthuman Feminism and Gender Methodology
- Chapter 6 Gender, Sperm Troubles, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
- Chapter 7 Gender, Capital, and Care
- Chapter 8 Aspiration Management: Gender, Race, Class, and the Child as Waste
- Chapter 9 Gender, Race and American National Identity: The First Black First Family
- Chapter 10 Gender and the Collective
- Chapter 11 Willfulness, Feminism, and the Gendering of Will
- Chapter 12 Gender and Emigré Political Thought: Hannah Arendt and Judith Shklar
- Chapter 13 Feminism and the Abomination of Violence: Gender Thought and Unthought
- Chapter 14 Trafficking, Prostitution, and Inequality: The Centrality of Gender
- Chapter 15 Gender, Revenge, Mutation, and War
- Chapter 16 Bed Peace and Gender Abnorms
- Index
- References
Chapter 11 - Willfulness, Feminism, and the Gendering of Will
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 October 2021
- Why Gender?
- Why Gender?
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- A Prefatory Note
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Gender in Translation: Beyond Monolingualism
- Chapter 2 Gender and the Queer/Trans* Undercommons
- Chapter 3 Gender and the End of Biological Determinism
- Chapter 4 Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Colonialism
- Chapter 5 Posthuman Feminism and Gender Methodology
- Chapter 6 Gender, Sperm Troubles, and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
- Chapter 7 Gender, Capital, and Care
- Chapter 8 Aspiration Management: Gender, Race, Class, and the Child as Waste
- Chapter 9 Gender, Race and American National Identity: The First Black First Family
- Chapter 10 Gender and the Collective
- Chapter 11 Willfulness, Feminism, and the Gendering of Will
- Chapter 12 Gender and Emigré Political Thought: Hannah Arendt and Judith Shklar
- Chapter 13 Feminism and the Abomination of Violence: Gender Thought and Unthought
- Chapter 14 Trafficking, Prostitution, and Inequality: The Centrality of Gender
- Chapter 15 Gender, Revenge, Mutation, and War
- Chapter 16 Bed Peace and Gender Abnorms
- Index
- References
Summary
Why is gender important for understanding the world in which we live? In this chapter I show how understanding gender offers an important way of understanding the world. I do not begin by assuming what gender is in order to establish its importance. Rather we can explore gendering as a dynamic and social process, which requires the development of new tools of analysis. Making sense of how gender works allows us to show how gender matters even where it does not appear to matter; gender is a technique for building worlds as well as bodies.
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- Why Gender? , pp. 245 - 266Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021