"Gender" Claire Colebrook

This book is under the title "Transitions" which is a series devoted to passages and movements in critical thought.

Claire Colebrook gives an account of "gender" in the history of philosophy. She is brief but not superficial. Valuable information is conveyed in the book, which touches upon the historical differences of perception of sexuality and gender. Many historical facts that are usually overlooked in the gender discussions today are given in the book. Colebrook explains and discusses the perception of gender in pre-modern times, modernity, and postmodernity (or, poststructuralism). Many acclaimed theorists are covered in the book from a gender-aware perspective, such as Plato, Aristotle, Freud, Lacan, Derrida, Levi-Strauss, Deleuze and Guattari; and feminist thinkers such as de Beauvoir, Kristeva, Irigaray, Elizabeth Grosz, and Butler.

I recommend this book to everyone who is getting prepared for a research that is related to the issues of gender. It is a very good point to start the debate with an awareness of some historical facts. One can also prefer to find and read the work of the thinkers that are related in this book for the research.

Here is the Transitions website, where you can see all the titles:
http://www.palgrave-usa.com/series/serieslist.aspx?page=1&series=Transitions