Gender, Sexuality and Subjectivity: A Lacanian Perspective on Identity, Language and Queer Theory

By Duane Rousselle

Book Overview

Offering a concise yet comprehensive introduction to gender theory, this thought-provoking new book aims to make an intervention into the contemporary American paradigm of thinking gender and sexuality and offers a powerful challenge to the paradigm of social constructionism.

Within each gender paradigm there are unacknowledged truths. The controversial claim of this book is that queer theory and intersectionality - and, more broadly, the social constructionist paradigm - have reached a limit. Indeed, it is possible that they are becoming regressive political gestures. However, there are possibilities of moving forward in this new area of transformation and Rousselle claims that a new logic of gender invention is opening up a new paradigm of thought.

Part of the popular Routledge Focus on Mental Health series, this book will be of immense value to students and teachers who aim to understand in a basic way some of the various main paradigms, theories, and concepts within gender and sexuality studies. It will also be an important attempt to think beyond those paradigms and theories.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367495899
• ISBN13: 9780367495893
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"