Masculinities Without Men? - Female Masculinity In Twentieth-Century Fictions

Informationen zum Autor J. Bobby Noble Klappentext This work explores how the construction of gender was thrown into crisis during the twentieth century, opening a permanent rupture in the gender system, destabilizing masculinity as an unstable category. Zusammenfassung This work explores how the construction of gender was thrown into crisis during the twentieth century! opening a permanent rupture in the gender system! destabilizing masculinity as an unstable category. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The New Men of 19981. Alibis of Essence and Enemies Within: At the Well of Obscenity2. Passionate Fictions: Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness3. Impressions of the Man: Sacred Countries and the Stone Butch Blues4. Boys Do Cry: Hilary Swank and the Politics of a Pronoun5. Postscript: Notes Toward a Radical (Re)Thinking of the Politics of GenderNotesReferencesIndex

Product details

• Authors: Jean Bobby Noble
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.03.2005
• EAN: 9780774809979
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-0997-9
• No. of pages: 180
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Sexuality Studies; Sexuality Studies Series; Sexuality Studies; Sexuality Stud
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)