The End of Gender: A Psychological Autopsy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780415927710)

Gender isn't what it used to be. Categories are collapsing. What was deviant for baby boomers has become mainstream for their offspring: like the coed who realizes she's bisexual but, after a period of adjustment, shrugs her shoulders and gets on with her otherwise mundane life. Gender as we once understood it is over, and gender-bending is the new beat. Men sport ponytails and earrings and teach nursery school; women flaunt tatoos and biceps and smoke cigars.In The End of Gender, Shari L. Thurer argues that we are in the midst of a new sexual revolution. It is one where gender categories are blurring not just at the "fringes" of society, but in mainstream lifestyle, media, fashion, and art. So, why is this cultural phenomenon happening now? And what does it mean? In lively, non-technical language, and with sometimes surprising case studies from her 25 years as a psychologist, Thurer answers these questions, bridging complex postmodern theory with cutting edge psychoanalysis.

Author: Shari L. Thurer
ISBN-10: 0415927714
ISBN-13: 9780415927710
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 06/14/2005
Pages: 242
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.12w x 0.52d

Review Citation(s):
Foreword 11/01/2005 pg. 53
Foreword 09/01/2005 pg. 1
Foreword 08/19/2009