The Gender Binary and the Invention of Race

Sally Markowitz

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English

Routledge
28 May 2024

Popular culture; Gender studies, gender groups; Ethnic studies; Sociology

The Gender Binary and the Invention of Race explores a fundamental and often overlooked connection between modern European conceptions of gender and race. Starting in the eighteenth century, these conceptions have intermeshed through a racialized gender‑binary ideal for the male‑female couple that, supposedly, only Europeans embody.

Through an exploration of various expressions of this racial gender-binary ideal, this book illuminates the deep connections between categories of race, sex/gender, and sexuality and the social hierarchies they support. This book also explores how the racial gender‑binary ideal has both shaped fin‑de‑siècle arguments for the respectability of male homosexuality and informed the mid‑twentieth‑century feminist analysis of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. Finally, this book compares its approach to understanding the race/gender connection to that of intersectional theorist Kimberle Crenshaw.

The Gender Binary and the Invention of Race is an accessibly written book that will be of interest both to undergraduate and graduate students of Gender Studies, as well as to a general audience wishing to learn more about the relationship between the categories of race, gender, and sexuality.

By: Sally Markowitz
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367367558
ISBN 10: 0367367556
Pages: 194
Publication Date: 28 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1. Binary sex and its skeptics 2. Whiteness: Gender-binary from the start 3. Making (male) homosexuality white 4. Orientalism and the gender-binary ideal in The Second Sex 5. Intersectionality and the racial gender-binary ideal Afterword

Sally Markowitz is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Willamette University and the co‑founder of Willamette’s Women’s Studies program. She has taught philosophy and gender studies for many years, and her articles and reviews in the fields of aesthetics, feminism, and gender studies have appeared in a variety of academic journals and anthologies.