Genders

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Title:

Genders

Author:

Glover, David, 1946-

ISBN:

9780415442435

9780415442442

Personal Author:

Glover, David, 1946-

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication Information:

London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2009.

Physical Description:

vi, 203 p. ; 21 cm.

Series:

The new critical idiom

The new critical idiom.

New critical idiom.

Series Title:

The new critical idiom

General Note:

Previous ed.: 2000.

Contents:

Introduction. Gendered histories, gendered contexts -- Of doctors and dictionaries -- Gender and sexual science -- Rethinking gender(s) -- Gender and language: Wittig's pronouns -- 1. Femininity and feminism -- 'Women feel just as men feel': femininity and feeling 1790-1850 -- Femininity between world wars -- Race and femininity in African American writing -- Masculine identification: femininity's disappearing act -- Lesbian fiction after modernism: queering the genre -- Post-human(ist) femininity? -- 2. Masculinities -- 'The manly ideal' -- Dissipation and 'natural character' -- 'The hero as man of letters' -- Of beetles and dandies -- 3. Queering the pitch -- Homosexuals, inverts and fairies -- In and out of the closet -- Queer sensibilities, queer theory -- 'Anticommunitarian impulses' -- 4. Readers and spectators -- Gender and the public sphere -- 'Interpretive communities' -- Spectateur, spectatrice.

Abstract:

"The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literary and cultural studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinary boundaries and provokes lively debate. In this fully revised and updated second edition, David Glover and Cora Kaplan offer a lucid and illuminating introduction to 'gender' and its implications, including: an overview of the critical language and concepts surrounding gender from their historical inception to contemporary debates; discussions of the major theorists in the field updated and extended coverage of lesbian and queer theory; and a new glossary of terms essential to an understanding of the debate on gender in contemporary theory." "With its impressive breadth and depth of coverage, this volume offers not only a comprehensive history of this complex term, but also indicates its ongoing presence in literary and cultural theory and the new directions it is taking."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Sex.

Criticism.

Feminism.

Gender identity in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Added Author:

Kaplan, Cora.

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The concept of gender continues to be a central issue in literary and cultural studies, with a significance that crosses disciplinary boundaries and provokes lively debate. In this fully revised and updated second edition, David Glover and Cora Kaplan offer a lucid and illuminating introduction to 'gender' and its implications, including:

an overview of the critical language and concepts surrounding gender from their historical inception to contemporary debates discussions of the major theorists in the field updated and extended coverage of lesbian and queer theory a new glossary of terms essential to an understanding of the debate on gender in contemporary theory.

With its impressive breadth and depth of coverage, this volume offers not only a comprehensive history of this complex term, but also indicates its ongoing presence in literary and cultural theory and the new directions it is taking.