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Other sexes : rewriting difference from Woolf to Winterson /
"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."
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©2000.
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| Colección: | SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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 noncanonical - Andrea L. Harris argues that there is a continuum in these novelists' investigations of gender. Taking as theoretical models Judith Butler's theory of performance 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, through which new combinations of sex, gender, desire, and sexual practice are created."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 187 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-182) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585276544 9780585276540 0791444562 9780791444566 |
| Acceso: | Limited Users and Download Restrictions may Apply, Ebsco 1 User Licence. Available using University of Exeter Username and Password. |