Gender and sexual fluidity in 20th century women writers : switching desire and identity This book analyses 20th century writers who traffic in queer non normative and or fluid gender and sexual identities and subversive practices revealing how gender and sexually variant women create revise redefine and play with language desires roles the body and identity Thinking sex: presentation representation and manifestation; an unveiling Hidden spaces and the switch: Gertrude Stein does man space and girl pink Theory must be doing: Jeanette Winterson Eileen Myles and Kathy Acker switch in the spaces and language of non normative identities and desires Memoir girl and teen hood the body and deviancy in Kathy Acker Anne Carson and Sappho Concluding possibilities for switching: gender sex and identity freedom.