Critical Insights: Gender, Sex & Sexuality

Publisher Salem Press

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Salem Press

Volume

Copyright

2014

ISBN13

9781619254046

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Format

eBook

Grade Level

9th Grade - College Senior

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TBD

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Overview

Great starting point for students seeking an introduction to the themes of gender, sex, and sexuality and the critical discussions surrounding it.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
On Gender, Sex, and Sexuality: Reading Gender, Sex, and Sexuality through Memoirs of Trauma.
Critical Contexts.
1: Writing Gender: Authorship and Authority.
2: Who's Counting? Sexes, Genders, and Sexualities from Ancient Myths to Fin-de-Siècle and Twentieth-Century Literature and Theory.
3: A Queer Time for Sex in Matthew Lewis' The Monk.
4: “What to Become?” Religion, Masculinity, and Self-Determination in A Visitation of Spirits, Parable of the Sower, and Parable of the Talents.
Critical Readings.
5: Whistling Past the Grave of the Phallus: Aristophanes' Lysistrata.
6: Shining Genji and the Women of the Heian Court in the Genji Monogatari.
7: Sexual Disgust and the Limits of Tolerance: Learning about Regulatory Regimes from Sanskrit Drama.
8: Unsexing Gender in Shakespeare's Macbeth.
9: “their sex not equal seemed”: Gender, Sex, and Sexuality in Milton's Paradise Lost.
10: Sexuality and Gender in Victorian Sensation and Other Fiction.
11: Making Herself “for a Person”: Gender and Jewishness in Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers.
12: Claustrophobia: Containment and Queer Spaces in Tea and Sympathy and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
13: Killing the Queen: Yeats, McDonagh, and Punk.
14: A Road More Travelled: Gay and Lesbian Lives in Irish Fiction Since 1989.
15: Trans/Forming Girlhood: Transgenderism, the Tomboy Formula, and Gender Identity Disorder in Sharon Dennis Wyeth's Tomboy Trouble.
16: Border-Crossing and Evolution: From Violence to Love in Cristina García's Monkey Hunting and The Lady Matador's Hotel.
Resources.
Additional Works on Gender, Sex, and Sexuality.
Bibliography.
About the Editor.
Contributors.
Index.
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Critical Insights: Gender, Sex & Sexuality

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