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"In this Chapter I consider how dangerous and disturbing the term "gender" has become in the minds of those who fear its power and influence. The stated concern about "gender" as a foreign term, an English term, acting on local or national cultures as if it were a foreign element or, indeed, a foreign power is matched by a presumption within feminist and LGBTIQ theory that "gender" can function as a generalizable concept no matter the language into which it enters. The aim of the following chapter is, thus, two-fold: one, to establish that there is no "gender theory" without a problem of translation, and that the fear of "gender" as a destructive cultural imposition from English (or from the Anglophone world) manifests a resistance to translation that deserves critical attention. As much as the resistance to cultural imperialism is surely warranted, so too is the resistance to forms of linguistic nationalism that seek to purify its language of foreign elements and the disturbance to syntactical ways of organizing the world that they can produce"--

"Encompassing feminism, masculinities and queer theory, and drawing on film, literature, language, creative writing and digital technologies, these essays, from scholars experienced in teaching gender theory in university English programmes, offer inventive and student-focused strategies for teaching gender in the twenty-first century classroom"--

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter 1: What is Gender Identity? -- Chapter 2: Forms of Being Transgender -- Chapter 3: Living as Transgender -- Chapter 4: Finding Support -- Glossary -- For More Information -- For Further Reading -- Index -- Back Cover

Was hat der Begriff Gender mit der Dekonstruktion zu tun, in deren Zeichen seit den 1960er Jahren eine radikale Kritik an den hierarchischen, machtgesättigten Grundoppositionen des abendländischen Denkens erfolgt? Inwiefern ist die Geschlechtsidentität gesellschaftlich konstruiert und wie kann sie dekonstruiert werden? In welchem Zusammenhang stehen die emanzipatorischen Ziele der Queer-Theorie mit dekonstruktiven Denkbewegungen? Entlang einer historisch systematischen Hinführung, eines Begriffsglossars und einer kommentierten Bibliographie widmet sich der Band den Grundlagen der Gender- und Queer-Theorie. Er richtet sich an Studierende aller geistes-, sozial- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Disziplinen und ist zugleich als Einführung und Nachschlagewerk geeignet.