{"product_id":"gender-commodity-marketing-feminist-identities-and-the-promise-of-security-paperback","title":"Gender Commodity: Marketing Feminist Identities and the Promise of Security - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobin Truth Goodman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGender has become a commodity. Today's economy trades in symbols and narratives as much as in objects. As such, gender can be bought and sold, produced as an object, and demands constant work. What makes the commodity object seem alien, mysterious, and even threatening, Marx tells us, is that the worker's social relations - his subjectivity - are taken away from him and stamped into the object which then appears to have a life of its own, disassociated and threatening. \u003ci\u003eGender Commodity\u003c\/i\u003e argues that gender is a social relation made into such an alienated object. In today's situation of radical insecurity, people are reaching out and identifying with objects - including symbolic ones - that promise quite falsely that they grant stability, duration, and fulfillment, and gender has been made into one of those. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGender Commodity\u003c\/i\u003e is an interdisciplinary study that brings literary studies into dialogue with the surrounding mediascape around issues of gender, culture, and economy. It also asks how the symbolic production of gender commodity at home informs an imagination of gender policy as it reaches out globally. As it criticizes gender-affirmative feminism for participating in the culture of the commodity, \u003ci\u003eGender Commodity\u003c\/i\u003e also looks to feminism to imagine gender otherwise.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobin Truth Goodman\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at Florida State University, USA. Her many previous publications include \u003ci\u003eFeminism as World Literature\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2023), \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Adorno, Understanding Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2020), \u003ci\u003eThe Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st Century Feminist Theory\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2019); \u003ci\u003ePromissory Notes: On the Literary Conditions of Debt \u003c\/i\u003e(2018); \u003ci\u003eGender for the Warfare State: Literature of Women in Combat\u003c\/i\u003e (2017); and \u003ci\u003eLiterature and the Development of Feminist Theory\u003c\/i\u003e (2016).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.42 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 24, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45471533826150,"sku":"9781501388064","price":83.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/2QSfSFIi3i9781501388064.webp?v=1776261020","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/gender-commodity-marketing-feminist-identities-and-the-promise-of-security-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}