Gender and sexual fluidity in 20th century women writers : switching desire and identity /

Gender and sexual fluidity in 20th century women writers : switching desire and identity / Lesley C. Graydon.

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"This book analyses 20th century writers who traffic in queer, non-normative, and/or fluid gender and sexual identities and subversive practices, revealing how gender and sexually variant women create, revise, redefine, and play with language, desires, roles, the body, and identity"--

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Main Author: Graydon, Lesley, 1969- (Author)
Other title:Gender and sexual fluidity in twentieth century women writers.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2021.
Series:Interdisciplinary research in gender.
Subjects:
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Gender identity in literature.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Queer theory.
American literature.
American literature > Women authors.
Women and literature.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • "Thinking sex:" presentation, representation, and manifestation; an unveiling
  • Hidden spaces and the switch: Gertrude Stein does man-space and girl pink
  • Theory must be doing: Jeanette Winterson, Eileen Myles and Kathy Acker switch in the spaces and language of non-normative identities and desires
  • Memoir, girl and teen-hood
  • the body and deviancy in Kathy Acker, Anne Carson, and Sappho
  • Concluding possibilities for switching: gender, sex, and identity freedom.

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