| Description |
1 online resource (xxxii, 288 pages) |
| Series |
Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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, Tomboy Trouble, and more from a plethora of distinct cultures and viewpoints |
| Notes |
Edition statement supplied by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sex in literature.
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Sex (Psychology) in literature.
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Gender identity in literature.
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Love in literature.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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Sexualidad -- En la literatura
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Psicología sexual -- En la literatura
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Identidad sexual -- En la literatura
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Amor -- En la literatura
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Gender identity in literature
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Love in literature
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Sex in literature
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Sex (Psychology) in literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Breen, Margaret Sönser, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781619254046 |
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1619254042 |
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