Sex, gender and time in fiction and culture
By: edited by Ben Davies and Jana Funke
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780230275478
Subjects: Time in motion pictures; Sex in popular culture; Sex in literature; Time in art; Queer theory; Homosexuality and literature; Time perception in literature; Gender identity in literature
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Introduction: sexual temporalities  -- Ben Davies and Jana Funke -- Section 1.; title: Backwards and Forwards: Negotiating History and Futurity: -- 2.; title: Queer Medieval time in Hamlet (1921)  -- Bettina Bildhauer; -- 3.; title: No present  -- Stephen Guy-Bray; -- 4.; title: History's tears  -- Michael O'Rourke; -- 5.; title: Jeanette Winterson's love intervention: rethinking the future  -- Abigail Rine -- Section 2.; title: In and Out of Time: Sexual Practices, Sexual Identities: -- 6,; title: Hymenal exceptionality  -- Ben Davies; -- 7.; title: Time for the gift of dance  -- Sarah Dillon; -- 8.; title: The case of Karl M.[artha] Baer: narrating 'Uncertain' sex  -- Jana Funke; -- 9.; title: Transgender temporalities and the UK Gender Recognition Act  -- Emily Grabham -- Section 3.; title: (Un)Becoming: Negativity, Death and Extinction: -- 10.; title: Unbecoming: queer negativity/radical passivity  -- Judith Halberstam; -- 11.; title: Difference, time and organic extinction  -- Claire Colebrook; -- 12.; title: Busy dying -- Valerie Rohy.