Gender, Sex & Sexuality
Series: Critical insights
Publisher: Salem Press/Grey House Publishing; Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc.; Grey House Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Ipswich, MA; Amenia, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781619254039
Copyright date: 2014
Description: "So much of great literature centers on explorations of gender, sex, and sexuality. What does it mean to be a proper man or woman; what if one cannot be properly called either? Should one wield one's sexual power politically? What is the relation between law, divine or secular, and sexuality? What does it mean to fail at doing gender? These are just some of the questions that this volume, edited by Margaret Breen, Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at University of Connecticut, examines. Essays will consider a range of texts, including Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji, John Milton's Paradise Lost, Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Sharon Dennis Wyeth's Tomboy Trouble in light of issues of gender, sex, and sexuality, and their interplay."--PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE.
Table of contents: title: About this volume / Margaret Sönser Breen; title: On gender, sex, and sexuality : reading gender, sex, and sexuality through memoirs of trauma / Margaret Sönser Breen; title: Critical contexts.; title: Writing gender : authorship and authority / Frederick S. Roden, Joseph J. Portanova; title: Who's counting? : Sexes, genders, and sexualities from ancient myths to Fin-de-siècle and twentieth-century literature and theory / Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou; title: A queer time for sex in Matthew Lewis' The Monk / Lisa Blansett; title: "What to become?" : Religion, masculinity, and self-determination in A Visitation of Spirits, Parable of the Sower, and Parable of the Talents / Marlon Rachquel Moore; title: Critical readings.; title: Whistling past the grave of the phallus : Aristophanes' Lysistrata / Roger Travis; title: Shining genji and the women of the Heian court in the Genji Monogatari / Sara R. Johnson; title: Sexual disgust and the limits of tolerance : learning about regulatory regimes from Sanskrit drama / Patrick Colm Hogan; title: Unsexing gender in Shakespeare's Macbeth / Greg Colón Semenza; title: "Their sex not equal seemed" : gender, sex, and sexuality in Milton's Paradise Lost / David Gay; title: Sexuality and gender in Victorian sensation and other fiction / Thomas Recchio; title: Making herself "for a person" : gender and Jewishness in Anzia Yesierska's Bread Givers / Lisa Marcus; title: Claustrophobia : containment and queer spaces in Tea and Sympathy and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / Brenda Murphy; title: Killing the queen : Yeats, McDonagh, and punk / Mary M. Burke; title: A road more travelled : gay and lesbian lives in Irish fiction since 1989 / Rachael Sealy Lynch; title: Trans/Forming girlhood : transgenderism, the tomboy formula, and gender identity disorder in Sharon Dennis Wyeth's Tomboy Trouble / Michelle Ann Abate; title: Border-crossing and evolution : from violence to love in Cristina Garcia's Monkey Hunting and The Lady Matador's Hotel / Barbara Frey Waxman; title: Resources.; title: Additional works on gender, sex, and sexuality; title: Bibliography; title: About the editor; title: Contributors