ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the creation of temporary deals and alliances of a political nature between men and women on the basis of their ambivalent feelings towards each other, something elevated, difficult to achieve and worthwhile is being proposed, not something tawdry and short term. The 'new deal' was the name given to the wide range of programmes, agencies and economic laws and institutions introduced by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1938. 'Gender' has come to mean the arrangements by which the supposedly biological raw material of sex and procreation is shaped by human and social intervention. Gender and the passionate politics it spawns have given rise to traumatic divisiveness in our world – West, East, South and North. Most people are wary of any individuals who seem too settled and sure in their gender identity and gender role.
