Gender Optics
Brill (Verlag)
9789004445758 (ISBN)
What if normative gender standards were legally enforced? How would our institutions inform and enforce these rules and regulations? What would be the consequences of failing to comply with gender expression standards? It’s in the midst of this maelstrom that we join Alex, our genderfluid and nonbinary protagonist who, during the thick of their adolescence, must navigate the choppy waters of lust, love, friendship, schooling, loss, and their city’s rigid – and perhaps lethal – gender expectations. In this world, Alex must constantly exchange their true self for safety and compliance, a relentless transaction from which they feel they never will escape. Can they navigate this slippery slope, alongside their patchwork community of friends and allies? Or is arrest and social persecution inevitable?
This novel is an honest and raw examination of queer lives. Gender Optics will illustrate, interrogate, and challenge the harmful products of binary hegemonic systems that all too often push gender variant folks to the fringes of society. While Gender Optics can be read purely for pleasure, it can also be used as supplemental reading for courses in critical theory, gender theory, gender and sexuality studies, LGBTQ studies, intersectionality, and arts-based research.
Shalen Lowell is a transgender author residing in Southern Maine, specializing in fiction which validates the struggles and triumphs of LGBTQ+ folx. Shalen has contributed chapters on trans/genderfluid identity to Privilege Through the Looking Glass (Sense Publishers, 2017) and Scientists and Poets #RESIST (Brill Sense, 2019).
Acknowledgments
Academic Introduction
Part 1: Measuring Deviation
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Part 2: Reflections in the Dove Prism
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Part 3: The Visible Spectrum
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Questions for Class and Book Club Discussions
Appendix: Gender Terminology Reference Chart
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.10.2020 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Social Fictions Series ; 37 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 531 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-13 | 9789004445758 / 9789004445758 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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