Focusing on a selection of novels by Woolf, Djuna Barnes, Marianne Hauser, and Jeanette Winterson -- novels that cross conventional boundaries between British and American, modern and postmodern, canonical and non-canonical -- Andrea L. Harris argues that there is a continuum in these novelists' investigations of gender. Taking as theoretical models Judith Butler's theory of performance gender and Luce Irigaray's concept of the sensible transcendental. Harris analyzes increasingly more radical challenges to the notion of two sexes and two genders throughout the twentieth century, through which new combinations of sex, gender, desire, and sexual practice are created.
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Focusing on a selection of novels by Woolf, Djuna Barnes, Marianne Hauser, and Jeanette Winterson -- novels that cross conventional boundaries between British and American, modern and postmodern, canonical and non-canonical -- Andrea L. Harris argues that there is a continuum in these novelists' investigations of gender. Taking as theoretical models Judith Butler's theory of performance gender and Luce Irigaray's concept of the sensible transcendental. Harris analyzes increasingly more radical challenges to the notion of two sexes and two genders throughout the twentieth century, through which new combinations of sex, gender, desire, and sexual practice are created.
Imprint | State University of New York Press |
Country of origin | United States |
Series | SUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory |
Release date | November 1999 |
Availability | Supplier out of stock. If you add this item to your wish list we will let you know when it becomes available. |
First published | March 2000 |
Authors | Andrea L. Harris |
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - Trade |
Pages | 187 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7914-4456-6 |
Barcode | 9780791444566 |
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LSN | 0-7914-4456-2 |