Charles KingGods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century

The feminist philosopher Susan Bordo suggests that the dilemma of twentieth-century feminism is the tension between a gender identity that both mobilizes a liberatory politics on behalf of women and that results in gender prescriptions which excludes many women. This tension seems especially acute in feminist debates about essentialism/deconstructionism. Concentrating on the shared sex of women may run the risk of embracing an essentialism that ignores the differences among women, whereas emphasizing the constructed natures of sex and gender categories seems to threaten the very project of a feminist politics. I will analyze the possibility of dismantling gender prescriptions while retaining a gender identity that can be the beginning for an emancipatory politics. Perhaps feminists need not rely on a reified essentialism that elides the differences of race, class, etc., if we begin with our social practices of classification rather than with a priori generalizations about the nature of women.

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Conflicts Within the Anglican Communion

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199664153.013.36 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Jane Shaw

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Gay Marriage ◽

First Century ◽

Sex And Gender ◽

Same Sex ◽

The West ◽

Same Sex Couples ◽

Twenty First Century ◽

And Gender ◽

The Church

The churches of the Anglican Communion discussed issues of sex and gender throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century. Arguments about gender focused on the ordination of women to the diaconate, priesthood, and episcopate. Debates about sexuality covered polygamy, divorce and remarriage, and homosexuality. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, these debates became intensely focused on homosexuality and were particularly fierce as liberals and conservatives responded to openly gay bishops and the blessing and marriage of same-sex couples. By the second decade of the twenty-first century, the sex and gender debates had become less acrimonious, the Anglican Communion had not split on these issues as some feared, but the ‘disconnect’ between society and the Church, at least in the West, on issues such as the Church of England’s prevarication on female bishops and opposition to gay marriage, had decreased the Church’s credibility for many.

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Conclusion

Post-Mandarin ◽

10.5422/fordham/9780823273133.003.0007 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Ben Tran

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

National Culture ◽

State Power ◽

Cultural Representation ◽

Gender And Sexuality ◽

Partisan Politics ◽

Sex And Gender ◽

Political Ideologies ◽

Aesthetic Modernity ◽

And Gender

To consider modern Vietnamese literature and its politics through questions of gender and sexuality is to challenge Vietnamese Marxist criticism that was made orthodox and inflexible by the machinations of state power and partisan politics. This book has aimed to contribute to this reassessment with its primary arguments: that the post-mandarin engagement with and representation of colonial sex and gender fostered an inclusive field of cultural representation and, more broadly speaking, a democratic national culture from which Vietnamese Marxism emerged. Vietnam’s anticolonial national movement during the twentieth century was not the singular Marxism narrated and codified by the state but was rather conditioned and formed in conjunction with modernity’s sociohistorical transformations, various political ideologies, and, most pertinent here, an aesthetic modernity attending to questions of gender and sexuality.

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Gods of the Upper Air (How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century)

Psychiatry ◽

10.1080/00332747.2021.1889321 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 84 (1) ◽

pp. 90-93

Author(s):

Eric B. Schoomaker

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Sex And Gender ◽

And Gender

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Southern Africa

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199675616.013.007 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Alex Schoeman

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Material Culture ◽

Southern Africa ◽

Female Body ◽

Sex And Gender ◽

Farming Community ◽

Historical Figures ◽

Adult Body ◽

And Gender

Excavations of Southern African farming community sites have yielded two figurine types. The first comprises coarse clay figurines found in clusters in central areas in homesteads. These clusters contained anthropomorphic and animal figurines that resemble material culture used in twentieth-century southernmost African initiation schools. The second figurine type, associated with domestic areas, is finer and included toys and stylized human figurines. The stylized human figurines resemble historical figures that embodied ideas about male ownership over the female body, procreative powers, and spirit. The decorations on the stylized female figurines resemble body scarification that might have been used to express personhood. This chapter suggests that the production and use of these clay figurines were enmeshed in ideas about sex and gender, and that figurines materialized ideas, in both ceremonial and domestic contexts, about the adult body as sexed and gendered.

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