Cover -- Half Title -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: beyond gender - toward a decolonized queer feminist future -- Gender's ascendancy -- The now of feminisms -- The simultaneity of decolonized queer feminisms and sexuality activism -- Queer/trans and sexuality studies -- How to use this handbook -- Notes -- Works cited -- Part I Undoing gender studies Theoretical positionings -- 1 The rise and fall (and rise) of Mars and Venus in language and gender research -- Editor's introduction -- Author's introduction -- Introduction -- Phase 1 (1970s and 1980s) -- Phase 2 (1980s and 1990s) -- Phase 3: challenges at the turn of the century -- Re-emerging binaries? -- Final words on Mars and Venus -- Notes -- Works cited -- 2 Masculinity studies: contemporary approaches and alternative perspectives -- Editor's introduction -- Author's introduction -- Introduction -- Charting the field of masculinity studies: a short survey -- Problematizing the field of masculinity studies: the question of the body, female masculinities, and 'something queer within masculinity' -- Alternative perspectives I: transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches -- Alternative perspectives II: comparative masculinity studies -- Alternative perspectives III: transgender and intersex studies -- Possible future(s) of masculinity studies -- Acknowledgment -- Notes -- Works cited -- 3 Where are we going, where have we been, where do we return to, repeatedly? The seriality of feminist critique and gender studies -- Editor's introduction -- Author's introduction -- Introduction -- Approximating seriality -- Seriality in fiction on gender violence -- Feminism and gender studies as serial process -- Reloading feminism, undoing gender (studies)? -- Notes -- Works cited.

4 "Slavery to an assembly line is not a liberation from slavery to the kitchen sink": assessing social reproduction theory's challenge to liberal-feminist and classical-Marxist paradigms -- Editor's introduction -- Author's introduction -- Introduction -- Beyond economism -- "Wages for Housework" and the domestic labor debate -- 'Beyond' domestic labor -- Social reproduction theory today -- Notes -- Works cited -- 5 Modes of being vs. categories: queering the tools of intersectionality -- Editor's introduction -- Authors' introduction -- Introduction -- Identity trouble -- Intersectionality hype -- Modes of being -- Notes -- Works cited -- Part II Forms of practice: doing the 'after' of gender studies -- 6 Fictions of sexual amnesia -- Editor's introduction -- Author's introduction -- Introduction -- Forgetting about sex: an agenda for gender studies -- Degendering authorship -- Sexual metamorphosis -- Characters of indeterminate sex -- Resistance to gender indifference -- Implications for the future of gender studies -- Notes -- Works cited -- 7 Loving feminism: negotiating differences in the classroom -- Editor's introduction -- Author's introduction -- Sniffing the air for signs of a feminist spring -- Opening moves: negotiating differences -- The trouble with difference -- Commonality as a basis for feminist agendas -- Another feminist past: the German case -- Local observations -- The postfeminist present -- From analysis to agency -- Notes -- Works cited -- Syllabus -- 8 Unseemly desire: disciplining and othering the sexuality of women in later life -- Editor's introduction -- Author's introduction -- Introduction -- Demonization -- Desexualization -- Abjection -- Commodification -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works cited -- 9 The politics of neoliberal postfeminist bridal culture -- Editor's introduction -- Author's introduction -- Introduction.

Postfeminism -- Postfemininities and the 'modern' bride -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works cited -- 10 Small-screen tweenage angst: feminist icons and (anti-)heroines in twenty-first century American popular culture -- Editor's introduction -- Author's introduction -- Introducing Barrett, Rusty […] -- With quality comes great responsibility: engage us! -- The proliferation of roles and role models for women, queer, and trans* identities -- "Not that kind of girl" and all the more so […]: Lena Dunham's feminist iconicity -- Conclusion: pluralization ≠ diversity -- Notes -- Works cited -- 11 The "yes" which is not one: consent, the law, and the limits of false consciousness feminism -- Editor's introduction -- Author's introduction -- Introduction -- Sex, consent, and the social contract -- Consent, feminism, and the law -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works cited -- 12 Autonomous Sri Lankan women's organizations and their engagements with LBT advocacy -- Editor's introduction -- Author's introduction -- Introduction -- Background to the study -- Methodology -- Perceptions -- Advocacy role -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works cited -- 13 "It's a space shuttle!" Opening up queer* spaces through the performing arts -- Editor's introduction -- Authors' introduction -- Introduction -- B_oops: a cabaret -- Welcome -- Holding hands -- The public space as a political space -- Visibility -- Queer spaces as architectural as well as safe spaces -- Conclusion -- Prospects: "welcome to our space shuttle!" -- Picture credit -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.

Arguing for the notion of multiple futurities over that of progressive waves, Beyond Gender combines theoretical work with practical applications to provide an advanced introduction to contemporary feminist and sexuality research and advocacy. This comprehensive monograph documents the diversification of gender-related disciplines and struggles, arguing for a multidisciplinary approach to issues formerly subsumed under the unified field of gender studies. Split into two parts, the volume demonstrates how the notion of gender has been criticised by various theories pertaining to masculinity, feminism, and sexuality, and also illustrates how the binary and hierarchical ordering system of gender has been troubled or overcome in practice: in queer performance, legal critique, the classroom, and textual analysis.

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