Other Sexes: Rewriting Difference from Woolf to Winterson (SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory) - Softcover

Harris, Andrea L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791444562 ISBN 13: 9780791444566

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Explores alternatives to the gender binary in twentieth-century women's fiction.

In 1929, Virginia Woolf used the phrase "other sexes" to point out the dire need to expand our way of thinking about sexual difference. The fiction studied here does just that, by sketching the contours of a world where genders, sexes, and sexualities proliferate and multiply.

Focusing on a selection of novels by Woolf, Djuna Barnes, Marianne Hauser, and Jeanette Winterson-novels that cross conventional boundaries between British and American, modern and postmodern, canonical and non-canonical-Andrea L. Harris argues that there is a continuum in these novelists' investigations of gender. Taking as theoretical models Judith Butler's theory of performative gender and Luce Irigaray's concept of the sensible transcendental, Harris analyzes increasingly more radical challenges to the notion of two sexes and two genders throughout the twentieth century.

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Andrea L. Harris is Associate Professor of English at Mansfield University of Pennsylvania.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0791444562
• ISBN 13: 9780791444566
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 187
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