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Masculinities without Men?
Female Masculinity in Twentieth-Century Fictions
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Jean Bobby Noble
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English
Published/Copyright:
2007
About this book
This groundbreaking study of both famous and overlooked texts to demonstrate how trans-gendered and trans-sexual masculinity emerged as a unique category in late twentieth-century fiction.
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.
Author / Editor information
Jean Noble teaches in the Women's Studies Department at the University of Victoria.
Reviews
Susan Driver:
Attentive to the detailed narrative work of prose fiction writers and the interpretive responses they provoke, Noble engages complex masculinities with analytical subtlety and ethical sensitivity ... Masculinities Without Men? provides openings through which to envision gender transformations as mutually constitutive, without denying their respective struggles and integrities. It is here that this book provides a bridge between queer studies, gender studies and feminist studies that is extremely valuable
Attentive to the detailed narrative work of prose fiction writers and the interpretive responses they provoke, Noble engages complex masculinities with analytical subtlety and ethical sensitivity ... Masculinities Without Men? provides openings through which to envision gender transformations as mutually constitutive, without denying their respective struggles and integrities. It is here that this book provides a bridge between queer studies, gender studies and feminist studies that is extremely valuable
Aubrey Hanson and Kit Dobson:
Masculinities Without Men? is a richly theoretical text, explicating intricate socio-cultural phenomena with meticulous finesse. It approaches important literary and filmic texts and key areas of gender and sexuality studies in a thoughtful manner. Its thorough theoretical context makes it an important resource for scholars invested in gender theory. Jean Bobby Noble is clearly in the process of staking out a provocative and cutting-edge terrain within gender studies.
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November 1, 2007
eBook ISBN:
9780774851893
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222
eBook ISBN:
9780774851893
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Professional and scholarly;
