Queer Post-Gender Ethics [electronic resource] : The Shape of Selves to Come /
Nicholas, Lucy.author.
Can society operate without gender and even biological sex classifications? Queer Post-Gender Ethics argues that we could exist, formulate our relationships and be sexual in more androgynous ways. Outlining a political vision for how a post-gender sociality might be achieved, it presents queer social practices for a truly gender neutral world.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Queer theory; Sex/gender/sexuality/difference; Approach; The argument and structure: deconstructing sexual difference, reconstructing ethical selves; 1 The Resilience of Bigenderism; The omnirelevance of sex/gender identity; The 'disembodied' nature of sex/gender; The binary limits of trans identity politics; 2 Diagnosing and Transcending Sexual Difference; 'Explanatory-diagnostic analysis'; The limits of the sex/gender divide; The alternative 'diagnosis': the sex/gender/ desire continuum
The nature of sex: beyond sexual dimorphism and beyond the cultural vs. the materialReconstruction: the malleability of matter; The intersubjectivity of sexual difference: cultural genitals; Refining the problem and the aim: doing and un-doing difference; Opposition(s) and hierarchy(s): the symbolic violence of gender; 'Anticipatory-utopian critique': transcending sexual difference; Conclusion: the task ahead; 3 Gender Justice; Limits to liberal justice and freedom; The veil of ignorance; Liberalism as androcentric androgyny; Liberal feminism; Ethics of benevolence and partiality; Conclusion
4 Philosophical Arguments for Post-Gender Ontological EthicsThe ontological: the ambiguous existence of others; The conditions of agency: situated capacity; The ethical: transcendence through self creation; Sexual difference as oppression and immanence; Freedom as collective doing; Reciprocity as enabling alternative; Implications for post-gender politics: evaluating freedoms and maximising agency; Conclusion; 5 Queer Futures and Queer Ethics: Sketching Inexhaustibly Reciprocal Androgyny; The violence of closure; The closure of androgyny; 'Queer' and the reification of identity
Who is the other? The limits to recognition and the closure of samenessBeing reciprocal; Universalised particularism; (Global) queer ethic: 'sex for pleasure'; Queering utopia, queering androgyny; Conclusion; 6 The Politics of Implementing Post-Gender Ethics: Beyond Idealism/Realism; The inescapability of power and norms; Negation of negation: justifying strategic violence; Strategic essentialism and preventing closure; Beyond means/ends in gender and sexuality politics; Foreclosing foreclosure: doubled vision; Conclusion; 7 The Fully Armed Self: Cultivating Post-Gender Subjects
Multi-layered sites for post-gender ethicsFully armed: the ideal subject for androgynous reciprocity; Why pedagogy?; Queer pedagogy; Teaching androgyny; Gender-neutral childrearing; 8 Ethical Post-Gender Sexual Relationships and Communities; Doing reciprocity together: enabling relations for post-gender ethics; The relational ideal: enabling, truly dialogical communication; Reciprocal relations in practice; Anarchist and queer approaches to intimate relationships; Enabling, post-gender cultural resources: 'transcending immanence in concert with others'
Deregulating dimorphism: intersex rights
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Can society operate without gender and even biological sex classifications? Queer Post-Gender Ethics argues that we could exist, formulate our relationships and be sexual in more androgynous ways. Outlining a political vision for how a post-gender sociality might be achieved, it presents queer social practices for a truly gender neutral world.
Sociology.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Feminist theory.
Social sciences-Philosophy.
Gender Studies.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Feminism.
Social Theory.
Sociology, general.