| Description |
vi, 338 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Genders ; 20
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Identity and its discontents. Coming to the table: the differential politics of This bridge called my back / Kayann Short -- Talking about sex: sexology, sexual difference, and confessional talk shows / Deborah Lupton -- Henry James's thwarted love / Wendy Graham -- Gender and the discourse of nationalism in Anita Desai's Clear light of day / Sangetta Ray. Bad Medicine: diagnoses and domestic desires. Diagnosing the domestic woman in The woman in white and Dora / Lauren Chattman -- Memoirs from a German colony: what do white women want? / Marcia Klotz -- (Dis)Locating gender space and medical discourse in colonial India / Sandhya Shetty. Dream girls and boys. The third sex: figures of inversion in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood / Andrea L. Harris -- Boys' own stories and new spellings of my name: coming out and other myths of queer personality / Robert McRuer -- In formation: male homosocial desire in Willa Cather's One of ours / D. A. Boxwell -- Shakespeare out in Portland: Gus Van Sant's My own private Idaho, homoerotics, and boy actors / David Román. |
| Subject |
Gender identity -- Social aspects.
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Sex role -- Social aspects.
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Eroticism in literature.
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| Indexed Term |
Sexuality |
| Added Author |
Siegel, Carol, 1952-
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Kibbey, Ann, 1948-
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| ISBN |
0814779980 |
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0814779999 paperback |
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