Judith Roof is William Shakespeare Chair in English at Rice University. She is the author of A Lure of Knowledge: Lesbian Sexuality and Theory, Reproductions of Reproduction: Imaging Symbolic Change, Come As You Are: Sexuality and Narrative, All about Thelma and Eve: Sidekicks and Third Wheels, and The Poetics of DNA (Minnesota, 2007).

• ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Making Over: Metamorphosis, Taxonomy, Vantage2. Prosopopeias: Exceeding Kind3. Temporality Still4. Social Algebras5. Scopic Folding, Layered Economies6. The Fixer7. Gender Is as Gender Does: On the Rebound8. Spurious DisplaysConclusionNotesFilmographyIndex

"What Gender Is, What Gender Does is a major intervention in today’s stagnant theoretical debates on gender in its twenty-first-century permutations. With characteristic assertiveness, Judith Roof takes us beyond identity politics to forge a model of polymorphous sexuation that exposes gender regimes-including those based in queer, transgender, and performative thought-to cover up and perpetuate the asymmetries of sexual difference as immutable truth."-RenÉe C. Hoogland, Wayne State University

Judith Roof is William Shakespeare Chair in English at Rice University. She is the author of A Lure of Knowledge: Lesbian Sexuality and Theory, Reproductions of Reproduction: Imaging Symbolic Change, Come As You Are: Sexuality and Narrative, All about Thelma and Eve: Sidekicks and Third Wheels, and The Poetics of DNA (Minnesota, 2007).

• ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Making Over: Metamorphosis, Taxonomy, Vantage2. Prosopopeias: Exceeding Kind3. Temporality Still4. Social Algebras5. Scopic Folding, Layered Economies6. The Fixer7. Gender Is as Gender Does: On the Rebound8. Spurious DisplaysConclusionNotesFilmographyIndex

"What Gender Is, What Gender Does is a major intervention in today’s stagnant theoretical debates on gender in its twenty-first-century permutations. With characteristic assertiveness, Judith Roof takes us beyond identity politics to forge a model of polymorphous sexuation that exposes gender regimes-including those based in queer, transgender, and performative thought-to cover up and perpetuate the asymmetries of sexual difference as immutable truth."-RenÉe C. Hoogland, Wayne State University

Judith Roof is William Shakespeare Chair in English at Rice University. She is the author of A Lure of Knowledge: Lesbian Sexuality and Theory, Reproductions of Reproduction: Imaging Symbolic Change, Come As You Are: Sexuality and Narrative, All about Thelma and Eve: Sidekicks and Third Wheels, and The Poetics of DNA (Minnesota, 2007).

• ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Making Over: Metamorphosis, Taxonomy, Vantage2. Prosopopeias: Exceeding Kind3. Temporality Still4. Social Algebras5. Scopic Folding, Layered Economies6. The Fixer7. Gender Is as Gender Does: On the Rebound8. Spurious DisplaysConclusionNotesFilmographyIndex

"What Gender Is, What Gender Does is a major intervention in today’s stagnant theoretical debates on gender in its twenty-first-century permutations. With characteristic assertiveness, Judith Roof takes us beyond identity politics to forge a model of polymorphous sexuation that exposes gender regimes-including those based in queer, transgender, and performative thought-to cover up and perpetuate the asymmetries of sexual difference as immutable truth."-RenÉe C. Hoogland, Wayne State University