{"product_id":"gender-without-identity","title":"Gender Without Identity","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGender Without Identity \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eoffers an innovative and at times unsettling theory of gender formation. Rooted in the metapsychology of Jean Laplanche and in conversation with bold work in queer and trans studies, Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini jettison \"core gender identity\" to propose, instead, that gender is something all subjects \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eacquire \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand that trauma sometimes has a share in that acquisition. Conceptualizing trauma alongside diverse genders and sexualities is thus not about invalidating transness and queerness, but about illuminating their textures to enable their flourishing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten for readers both in and outside psychoanalysis, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGender Without Identity \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eargues for the ethical urgency of recognizing that wounding experiences and traumatic legacies may be \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003espun into gender. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSuch \"spinning\" involves self-theorizations that do not proceed from a centered self, but are nevertheless critical to psychic autonomy. Saketopoulou and Pellegrini draw on these ideas to offer clinical resources for working with gender complexity and for complexifying (what is seen as) gender normativity.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGender Without Identity has been short listed for the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e2024 Gradiva Award\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNational Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e}\"\u0026gt;\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unconscious in Translation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50120348041501,"sku":"9781942254195","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9781942254195.jpg?v=1751401651","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/gender-without-identity","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}