This book integrates the role of gender in girls' and women's development across the life span, looking specifically at internal and external vulnerabilities and risks, and the protective or supportive factors that facilitate effective coping, positive growth, strength and resilience. The interaction between physical, psychological, and cultural factors is integrated within each period of development. The book emphasizes how gender socialization of female development and behavior impacts self-evaluation and identity processes within various cultural groups. The authors also discusses the social roles that girls and women reflectively adopt and describe how externally induced risks such as poverty, interpersonal abuse, and violence influence a healthy development.
A selection of Butler's writings on gender identity, performativity, subjectivity, discursive power, kinship, and critique. Contains: Section 1: Sex, Gender Performativity, and the Matter of Bodies .1. Variations on Sex and Gender: Beauvoir, Wittig, Foucault (1987) .2. Excerpts from Subjects of Desire: Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France (1987) .3. Excerpts from Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990) .4. Imitation and Gender Insubordination (1990) .5. Excerpt from Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of 'Sex' (1993) .Section 2: Fantasy, Censorship, and Discursive Power .6. The Force of Fantasy: Mapplethorpe, Feminism, and Discursive (1990) .7. Endangered/Endangering: Schematic Racism and White Paranoia (1993) .8. Excerpt from Excitable Speech: A Poltics of the Performative (1997) .Section 3: Subjection, Kinship, and Critique .9. Excerpt from The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjection (1997) .10. Excerpt from Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left (2000) .11. Excerpt from Antigone’s Claim: Kinship Between Life and Death (2000) .12. What Is Critique? An Essay on Foucault’s Virtue (2001) .Section 4: Making Difficulty Clear .13. Changing the Subject: Judith Butler’s Politics of Radical Resignification.