Ciara Cremin

The Future is Feminine (eBook, ePUB)

Capitalism and the Masculine Disorder

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Carnage in the classroom, misogynists in high office, sociopaths in uniform, masculinity is a killer. From styles of dress to the stunted capacity for expressing a diversity of emotions, becoming a man involves killing off and repudiating anything that in our society is held as feminine. When a person is unable to show compassion and tenderness, or when exposed for their frailties, feels angry and humiliated, they have problems. Problems that none of us are immune to. Masculinity, Cremin provocatively declares, is a generic disorder of a sick society that afflicts even the best of us. Neither a condition of being human nor even of male, it is a disorder, as she illustrates, of a capitalist society that depends and even thrives upon its very symptoms.

From the perspective of a trans woman raised to be a man, the book maps the disorder and speculates on the possible means to overcome it. Instead of signifying weakness, catastrophes can be prevented when the qualities men often fear and women often feel subordinated to are prioritised, affirmed and nourished. Drawing, amongst others, on Marx and Freud, Cremin eloquently demonstrates why there can be no future other than one in which we are all reconciled as a society with the feminine. In such a future, the terms 'masculine' and 'feminine' will neither define us nor determine our relationship to one another.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350149793
• Artikelnr.: 61420340

Autorenporträt

Ciara Cremin lectures in sociology and leads the Gender Studies programme at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She has published a number of books, including Man-Made Woman (2017), that reflects on her early experiences of presenting publicly as a woman. Her work, in general, draws on Marxist, psychoanalytic and critical theory perspectives to diagnose the human condition in capitalism today.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Chapter One: The General Sickness Feminine Praxis
Femininity in Perspective Androcentric Disorder Miles Davis Teaches How to
do Theory Chapter two: Who's Ur Daddy? Death Becomes Him Dividends for
Disorder The Best is Not Good Enough Chapter Three: Toxicity Index Tables
and Chairs Calibrated Masculinity Reactive / Aggravated Masculinities
(RAMS) Degendering Aggression Meet the Signifiers Refusal through
Resignification Chapter Four: Vectors Of Androcentrism Cups and Sorcerers
Bezos on the Barricade Dawn of the Disorder The Four Labours of Masculinity
Do Androids Have Castration Anxieties? Chapter Five: Queervestism
Perspective on Perversion Pleasure as Principle Lipstick is Life Trans Eye
View Transvestic Figure What is Woman Good For? Chapter Six: Obsolesent
Empire A Lack Less Ordinary Femininity is the Riddle of the Masculine
Disorder Solved, and it Knows Itself to be this Solution Bibliography
Index