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Gender: A Graphic Guide
Gender: A Graphic Guide | Meg-John Barker
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Join the creators of Queer: A Graphic History (Could totally change the way you think about sex and gender VICE) on an illustrated journey of gender exploration. Is masculinity toxic? Why are public toilets such a political issue? How has feminism changed the available gender roles and for whom? Why might we all benefit from challenging binary thinking about sex/gender? In this unique illustrated guide, Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele travel through our shifting understandings of gender across time and space from ideas about masculinity and femininity, to non-binary and trans genders, to intersecting experiences of gender, race, sexuality, class, disability and more. Tackling current debates and tensions, which can divide communities and even cost lives, Barker and Scheele look to the past and the future to explore how we might all approach gender in more caring and celebratory ways.
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A relatively quick read (I thought), which I was so absorbed by that I read it in one sitting - result! 😁👍 The practical outcome of which is that I now have a maximum of three hours sleep before I have to get up for work! 😳😩
Book = 5⭐ You probably should read it 😊

Emilymdxn I read this in one sitting too! Such a good mix of fun and informative. There‘s one on sexuality and one on queer studies in the same series that‘s good too have you seen those ones? 6mo
Bookwomble @Emilymdxn It was good, but I'm tired this evening! 😄 I read Queer earlier in the year and have clocked that they've dune Graphic Guides on Sexuality and Feminism, so I'll have to see if I can persuade the library to get those in 🙂 6mo
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Only a few pages in, and a short section on hunter-gatherers (or gatherer-hunters if you place those activities in order of dietary importance) had me skimming the internet for more detailed information, which brought me to an NPR article: "Men are hunters, women are gatherers. That was the assumption. A new study upends it", which I found fascinating in itself, and also the insight it provides into the gender bias of the scientific establishment.

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My new post-Christmas adoptees 1-3/10 total 😂

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This book is making me confront and consider so many things.

Why is so much of the English language gendered for no good reason? (Waiter/waitress, actor/actress, 'lady judge', 'girl boss', comedian/comedienne etc.) Why are disabled bathrooms not gendered but bathrooms for able bodied persons are? Why are some cis folk against trans people having surgery, but not intersex people?

Just absolutely fascinating and so eye-opening. Would recommend.

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wicdiv
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This is fascinating so far and in bite sized parts as well.

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Gender: A Graphic Guide | Meg-John Barker

“Our concepts of gender and class are intrinsically connected because of the way that capitalism attributed a greater financial value to some labour (male, upper/middle-class) than to others (female, working-class).“

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Emilymdxn
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This was an incredible introduction to gender and all the things that intersect with it! I think it works well both as a primer for those who don‘t know much about gender issues and a book that takes you to knew places if you already know some stuff. The illustrations are cute and helpful, the authors cover a huge amount of material and this was just joyful to read from start to finish.

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