Sex, gender and time in fiction and culture / edited by Ben Davies and Jana Funke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davies, Ben, 1981-

Funke, Jana, 1982-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex in literature.

Gender identity in literature.

Time perception in literature.

Homosexuality and literature.

Queer theory.

Time in motion pictures.

Time in art.

Sex in popular culture.

Physical Description:

xi, 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

"Investigating modern art, literature, theory and the law, this book illustrates the different ways in which sex, gender and time intersect. It demonstrates that time offers new critical perspectives on sex and gender and makes problematic reductive understandings of sexual identity as well as straight and queer time"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Sexual Temporalities, B.Davies & J.Funke

PART I: BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS: NEGOTIATING HISTORY AND FUTURITY

Queer Medieval Time in Hamlet (1921); B.Bildhauer

No Present; S.Guy-Bray

History's Tears; M.O'Rourke

Jeanette Winterson's Love Intervention: Rethinking the Future; A.Rine_

PART II: IN AND OUT OF TIME: SEXUAL PRACTICES, SEXUAL IDENTITIES

Hymenal Exceptionality; B.Davies

Time for the Gift of Dance; S.Dillon

The Case of Karl M.[artha] Baer: Narrating 'Uncertain' Sex; J.Funke

Transgender Temporalities and the UK Gender Recognition Act; E.Grabham

PART III: (UN)BECOMING: NEGATIVITY, DEATH AND EXTINCTION

Unbecoming: Queer Negativity/Radical Passivity; J.Halberstam

Difference, Time and Organic Extinction; C.Colebrook

Busy Dying; V.Rohy

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230275478

0230275478

OCLC:

692287865