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Sex, Gender and Time in Fiction and Culture

by Davies, Ben; Funke, Jana

ISBN13:
9780230275478
ISBN10:
0230275478
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 2011-04-15
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

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

Author Biography

BEN DAVIES is a PhD candidate and teaching assistant in the School of English, University of St Andrews, UK.

JANA FUNKE is an Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter, UK.

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

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