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New Titles at the UConn Library Avery Point

New Titles December 2024

Spotlight

Below is a short selection of new eBooks from other UConn Library collections that support the information/research needs of UConn Avery Point.

You can find other eBooks by navigating to the UConn Library search page, clicking the drop down menu that reads "Articles and Library Catalog" (next to the microphone and magnifying glass icon), and then selecting "E-Books". When you search your preferred topic, each result will be an eBook.

Spotlight Gallery - December 2024

The Gender Binary and the Invention of Race

The Gender Binary and the Invention of Race explores a fundamental and often overlooked connection between modern European classifications of sex/gender and those of race. Starting in the eighteenth century, these classifications have been co-constructed through a White, sex/gender-binary ideal for the male-female couple; an ideal that so-called "inferior races" were thought not to meet. Through an exploration of expressions of this racial sex/gender-binary ideal, this book will broaden the reader's understanding of how thoroughly enmeshed categories of race, sex/gender, and sexuality are, as well how the racial gender-binary ideal has structured dominant understandings of race and sex/gender categories in a way that supports multiple social hierarchies. It also demonstrates how the racial gender-binary ideal has shaped arguments for the respectability of fin de siècle male homosexuality, as well as Simone de Beauvoir's classic text, The Second Sex. In addition, the book compares the approach it takes to understanding the relationship between sex/gender and racial categories and oppressions to the intersectional approach associated with Kimberlé Crenshaw. The Gender Binary and the Invention of Race is an accessibly written book of interest to those studying in both undergraduate and graduate Gender Studies classes, especially those focused on the relationship between categories of gender and race, as well as a more general audience with a background or interest in Gender Studies