| Description |
vi, 338 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Genders ; 23 |
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Genders ; 23.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Part one: Writing on the body? Violence, representation, and resistance in women's texts. Writing on the body? Violence, representation, and resistance in British suffragette, accounts of forcible feeding / Caroline J. Howlett ; Literary representations of battered women: spectacular domestic punishment / Frances L. Restuccia ; Resistant silence, resistant subject: (Re)Reading Gayl Jones's Eva's man / Janelle Wilcox ; "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" and other stories of women's wartime labor / Charles Hannon -- Part two: Renarratizing embodiment in (Post)colonial contexts. E. M. Forster's Queer Nation: taking the closet to the colony in A Passage to India / Elaine Freedgood ; Engendering the armed struggle: women, writing, and the Bengali "Terrorist" movement / Purnima Bose ; The power in written bodies: gender, decolonization, and the archive / Julia Emberley ; Bad canoes and Bafalo: the political economy of sex on Daru Island, Western Province, Papua New Guinea / Lawrence Hammar -- Part three: Performing masculinities. A terrible beauty is born: Henry James, aestheticism, and homosexual panic / Leland Monk ; Music of the "Fourth Gender": Morrissey and the sexual politics of melodic contour / Nadine Hubbs ; Lost boys and angry ghouls: Vietnam's undead / Amanda Howell. |
| Subject |
Human body in literature.
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Gender identity in literature.
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Family violence in literature.
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Realism in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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| Indexed Term |
Humans Body Related to Culture |
| Added Author |
Foster, Thomas C.
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Siegel, Carol, 1952-
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Berry, Ellen E.
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| Added Title |
Bodies in performance |
| ISBN |
0814726461 cloth |
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9780814726464 cloth |
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081472647X paperback |
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9780814726471 paperback |
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