After Male and Female: Our Post-Gender Future

In this third installment of audio from Think Tank 2009, James Herrick asks an old question in the new context of 21st century culture, “Are we not men?” Our anxiety is this: We no longer feel any real certainty about our authentic sexual selves. Confusion about gender and sexuality is now rampant in our culture. Where are we headed as regards gender, sexual identity and the body? The answers being advanced to such questions in popular media and art forms suggest that our culture will carry us beyond male and female into areas where these distinctions are no longer relevant.