Sex, Gender and Time in Fiction and Culture

Buch | Softcover

222 Seiten

2011 | 1st ed. 2011
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-32484-2 (ISBN)

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Investigating modern art, literature, theory and the law, this book illustrates the different ways in which sex, gender and time intersect. It demonstrates that time offers new critical perspectives on sex and gender and makes problematic reductive understandings of sexual identity as well as straight and queer time

BEN DAVIES PhD candidate and teaching assistant in the School of English, University of St Andrews, UK. JANA FUNKE Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter, UK.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Sexual Temporalities, B.Davies & J.Funke PART I: BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS: NEGOTIATING HISTORY AND FUTURITY Queer Medieval Time in Hamlet (1921); B.Bildhauer No Present; S.Guy-Bray History's Tears; M.O'Rourke Jeanette Winterson's Love Intervention: Rethinking the Future; A.Rine PART II: IN AND OUT OF TIME: SEXUAL PRACTICES, SEXUAL IDENTITIES Hymenal Exceptionality; B.Davies Time for the Gift of Dance; S.Dillon The Case of Karl M.[artha] Baer: Narrating 'Uncertain' Sex; J.Funke Transgender Temporalities and the UK Gender Recognition Act; E.Grabham PART III: (UN)BECOMING: NEGATIVITY, DEATH AND EXTINCTION Unbecoming: Queer Negativity/Radical Passivity; J.Halberstam Difference, Time and Organic Extinction; C .Colebrook Busy Dying; V.Rohy Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.05.2016
Zusatzinfo	XI, 222 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Schlagworte	Culture • Fiction • Gender • Identity • Law • Time
ISBN-10	1-349-32484-1 / 1349324841
ISBN-13	978-1-349-32484-2 / 9781349324842
Zustand	Neuware