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Gender, sex & sexuality /

This volume examines the different types of sexes, genders, and sexuality from ancient myths to present day; queerness; and religion, masculinity, and self-determination. It explores famous works such as Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Genji Monogatari, Macbeth, Paradise Lost, Victorian fiction, Tomb...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Breen, Margaret Sönser (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ipswich, Massachusetts : Amenia, NY : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Grey House Publishing, [2014]
Edición:[First edition].
Colección:Critical insights.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • About this volume / Margaret Sönser Breen
  • On gender, sex, and sexuality: reading gender, sex, and sexuality through memoirs of trauma / Margaret Sönser Breen
  • Critical contexts. Writing gender : authorship and authority / Frederick S. Roden, Joseph J. Portanova
  • Who's counting? : Sexes, genders, and sexualities from ancient myths to Fin-de-siècle and twentieth-century literature and theory / Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou
  • A queer time for sex in Matthew Lewis' The Monk / Lisa Blansett
  • "What to become?" : Religion, masculinity, and self-determination in A Visitation of Spirits, Parable of the Sower, and Parable of the Talents, Marlon Rachquel Moore
  • Critical readings. Whistling past the grave of the phallus : Aristophanes' Lysistrata / Roger Travis
  • Shining genji and the women of the Heian court in the Genji Monogatari / Sara R. Johnson
  • Sexual disgust and the limits of tolerance : learning about regulatory regimes from Sanskrit dram / Patrick Colm Hogan
  • Unsexing gender in Shakespeare's Macbeth / Greg Colón Semenza
  • "Their sex not equal seemed" : gender, sex, and sexuality in Milton's Paradise Lost / David Gay
  • Sexuality and gender in Victorian sensation and other fiction / Thomas Recchio
  • Making herself "for a person" : gender and Jewishness in Anzia Yesierska's Bread Givers / Lisa Marcus
  • Claustrophobia : containment and queer spaces in Tea and Sympathy and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / Brenda Murphy
  • Killing the queen : Yeats, McDonagh, and punk / Mary M. Burke
  • A road more travelled : gay and lesbian lives in Irish fiction since 1989 / Rachael Sealy Lynch
  • Trans/Forming girlhood : transgenderism, the tomboy formula, and gender identity disorder in Sharon Dennis Wyeth's Tomboy Trouble / Michelle Ann Abate
  • Border-crossing and evolution : from violence to love in Cristina Garcia's Monkey Hunting and The Lady Matador's Hotel / Barbara Frey Waxman
  • Resources. Additional works on gender, sex, and sexuality
  • Bibliography
  • About the editor
  • Contributors.