The future is feminine : capitalism and the masculine disorder /
Ciara Cremin.
Bok Engelsk 2021 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (240 pages).
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| Utgave | First edition.
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| Opplysninger | CHAPTER ONE: THE LIPSTICK GENE -- 1. Androcentric Disorder -- 2. Masculine by Default -- 3. Eros Wears Gucci -- 4. Miles Davis Teaches How To Do Theory -- CHAPTER TWO: WHO'S UR DADDY? -- 1. This is Not a Banana -- 2. What's In a Name? -- 2. Ideal-Untypical -- 3. Avoidance -- Restrictive Masculinities (ARMS) -- 4. Toxicity Index -- 5. Reactive -- Aggravated Masculinities (RAMS) -- 6. Gendering Aggression -- CHAPTER THREE: VECTORS OF ANDROCENTRISM -- 1. What are Men Good For? -- 2. Unravelling Gender -- 3. Origins of Man -- 4. Four Fundamentals -- 5. A Woman's Work -- CHAPTER FOUR: QUEERVESTISM -- 1. Pretty in Pink -- 2. Perspective on Perversion -- 3. Pleasure as Principle -- 4. Lipstick and Giants -- 5. Transvestic Figure -- 6. Real Women -- CHAPTER FIVE: A LACK LESS ORDINARY -- 1. Life Out of Joint -- 2. Meet the Signifiers -- 3. Dining on Dissatisfaction -- 4. Faking It -- 5. Third Eye Girl -- 6. Bezos on the Barricades -- 7. No Man's Land CHAPTER SIX: OBSOLESCENT EMPIRE -- 1. The Purge -- 2. Femininity is the Riddle of the Masculine Disorder Solved, and it Knows Itself to be this Solution.. - "Carnage in the classroom, misogynists in high office, sociopaths in uniform, masculinity makes headlines and for all the wrong reasons. But the most toxic of men are an index of a broader problem with the way males are raised and learn to interact. Designated male at birth, Cremin knows what it means to be masculinised. Now she offers a trans woman's perspective on and diagnosis of what provocatively she describes a disorder. It's a disorder of the human personality reflective of the society into which we are born. Primed to be competitive and violent, and compelled to kill off parts of the self because of their feminine associations, the masculinised male, Cremin says, is suited to capitalism's monstrous and unquenchable needs. She draws on marxist and psychoanalytic theory both to diagnose the condition and also, importantly, to theorise how individually and collectively it might be overcome. Rejecting the idea that males are inherently violent and females inherently nurturing or that there's such a thing as a masculine or feminine essence, Cremin proclaims nevertheless that, as she conceives the terms, femininity is the riddle of a masculine disorder solved, and it knows itself to be this solution. The future is feminine. It must be"--
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| ISBN | 1-350-14978-0. - 1-350-14979-9
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