Masculinities without men?
Subtitle: female masculinity in twentieth-century fictions
By: Jean Bobby Noble.
Series: Sexuality studies series,
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Vancouver
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Gender identity in literature.; Lesbianism in literature.; Masculinity in literature.; Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Women in motion pictures.
Description: "This groundbreaking study maps historical similarities in fictional, cultural, and representational practices between the periods of modernism and postmodernism. Noble examines nineteenth-century sexology, drama, and trial transcripts, and late twentieth-century counter-cultural fiction, popular film and documentaries, and theoretical texts. Among the works analyzed closely are texts that have been the focus of lesbian, queer, and feminist theory: Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness, Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues, and the film Boys Don't Cry. These, as Noble illustrates, make use of similar types of narratives, structures, and thematic techniques to articulate female masculinity. Also included is an exploration of Rose Tremain's Sacred Country, which has never before been studied within this context. Through a critical examination of these texts, Noble demonstrates that trans-gendered and trans-sexual masculinity began to emerge as a unique category in late twentieth-century fiction, distinct from lesbian or female masculinity."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references: p. [168]-176.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Alibis of essence and enemies within : at the well of obscenity; title: Passionate fictions : Radclyffe Hall's The well of loneliness; title: Impressions of the man : sacred countries and the Stone butch blues; title: Boys do cry : Hilary Swank and the politics of a pronoun; title: Postscript : notes towards a radical (re)thinking of the politics of gender.