Other sexes
rewriting difference from Woolf to Winterson
by Andrea L. Harris
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"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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Feminism and literature, Difference (Psychology) in literature, Sex role in literature, 20th century, History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Women authors, Women and literature, English fiction, American fiction, Gender identity in literature, History, Barnes, djuna, 1892-1982, English fiction, women authors, Woolf, virginia, 1882-1941, American fiction, women authors, Critique et interprétation, Écrits de femme anglais, Histoire et critique, Féminisme et littérature, Histoire, Écrits de femmes américains, Différence (Psychologie) dans la littérature, Identité sexuelle dans la littérature, Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshPlaces
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Other sexes: rewriting difference from Woolf to Winterson
2000, State University of New York Press
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Other Sexes: Rewriting Difference from Woolf to Winterson (S U N Y Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory)
November 1999, State University of New York Press
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Other Sexes: Rewriting Difference from Woolf to Winterson (S U N Y Series in Feminist Criticism and Theory)
November 1999, State University of New York Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-182) and index.
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