Sex, Gender and Time in Fiction and Culture [electronic resource] /
Davies, B.editor.
Funke, J.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Fiction.
Sociology.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature—Philosophy.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Fiction.
Gender Studies.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.