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All Equally Real: Femininities and Masculinities Today
This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2014.
This volume is a collection of research papers which deem gender identities to be dynamic and multiple categories, refusing resolutely to reduce their complexity to fit neat extant binaries. It attempts to grapple with the dialectic which emerges from the fact that while there is a certain resistance to being labeled in contemporary discourses on sexuality, gender identities actively influence how we interpret the world and how we function within it: we exist amongst patterns, models, and behaviours, as well as among people who virtually demand to be labeled, because to them, this forms the basis of a stable identity. Various cultural perspectives and realities are here given voice, bringing to bear upon the reader the need to identify privileges they might take for granted, but which are unobtainable elsewhere. As the curtain of one’s own cultural context is lifted, this volume hopes that these privileges are – even if for a moment – no longer invisible.
This volume is a collection of research papers which deem gender identities to be dynamic and multiple categories, refusing resolutely to reduce their complexity to fit neat extant binaries. It attempts to grapple with the dialectic which emerges from the fact that while there is a certain resistance to being labeled in contemporary discourses on sexuality, gender identities actively influence how we interpret the world and how we function within it: we exist amongst patterns, models, and behaviours, as well as among people who virtually demand to be labeled, because to them, this forms the basis of a stable identity. Various cultural perspectives and realities are here given voice, bringing to bear upon the reader the need to identify privileges they might take for granted, but which are unobtainable elsewhere. As the curtain of one’s own cultural context is lifted, this volume hopes that these privileges are – even if for a moment – no longer invisible.
Anna Pilińska is a doctoral student at the University of Wroclaw, with M.A. degrees in English and Spanish. She is currently working on her Ph.D. dissertation on the postmodern construction of sexuality in the prose of Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund White, Bobbie Ann Mason and Achy Obejas. Her interests include postmodern prose, film adaptations, poetry and translation.
Harmony Siganporia teaches in the area of Culture and Communication at the Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA). She has recently completed a doctoral dissertation on the langue and parole of reformist discourse around the ‘women’s question’ in late-19th century Western India. Her other research interests cover the areas of ethnomusicology, performing gender, and the role of music in the emplacement of exilic identities.
Harmony Siganporia teaches in the area of Culture and Communication at the Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA). She has recently completed a doctoral dissertation on the langue and parole of reformist discourse around the ‘women’s question’ in late-19th century Western India. Her other research interests cover the areas of ethnomusicology, performing gender, and the role of music in the emplacement of exilic identities.