Genders / David Glover and Cora Kaplan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glover, David.

Contributor:

Kaplan, Cora.

Series:

New critical idiom

The new critical idiom

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role.

Physical Description:

xxxiv, 177 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Summary:

"Gender" has, in recent years, become one of the busiest terms in literary and cultural theory, as well as being one of the most contested. David Glover and Cora Kaplan chart the main lines of contemporary debate surrounding gender in a guide which: * presents a history of the term, from the sexology of psychoanalysis of the 1960s to its current usage within the interdisciplinary field of gender studies * looks at the major perspectives on gender from second-wave feminist writers and critics * examines new work on masculinity in literary and cultural studies * assesses how the creation of new queer and gendered identities has impacted the study of literature * surveys empirical and theoretical work on readership and spectatorship, looking in detail at modes of fantasy, cultural consumption, reader response and fan cultures. This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.

Contents:

Introduction: gendered histories, gendered contexts ix

Of doctors and dictionaries x

Gender and sexual science xix

Rethinking gender(s) xxii

Gender and language: Wittig's pronouns xxviii

1 Femininity and feminism 1

'Women feel just as men feel': femininity and feeling 1790-1850 14

Femininity between world wars 26

Race and femininity in African American writing 36

Masculine identification: femininity's disappearing act 43

Post-human(ist) femininity? 52

2 Masculinities 56

'The manly ideal' 59

Dissipation and 'natural character' 69

'The hero as man of letters' 74

Of beetles and dandies 81

3 Queering the pitch 86

Homosexuals, inverts and fairies 88

In and out of the closet 94

Queer sensibilities, queer theory 104

'Anticommunitarian impulses' 112

4 Readers and spectators 121

Gender and the public sphere 124

'Interpretive communities' 136

Spectateur, spectatrice 146.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-171) and index.

ISBN:

0415134919

0415134927

OCLC:

43499432