Experiencing gender : international approaches /
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| Imprint: | Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015. ©2015 |
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| Description: | xxx, 308 pages ; 22 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10424328 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- General Introduction
- Special Contribution: Her Happy Unhappy Ending: A Feminist Antiracist Queer Writer Reaches her Forties in the Twenty-first Century and Takes a Deep Breath
- Part 1. Gendering Performance
- Introduction to this Part
- Chapter 1. Gender and Discourse on Stage M a Dolores
- Chapter 2. Delany's Perversion of Gender: The A-sexuality of Desire in 'Aye, and Gomorrah'
- Chapter 3. Gender in Show Business Drama: From Cinderella to Carmen in The Barefoot Contessa
- Chapter 4. Women in Rap Music: A Feminist Approach
- Part 2. Experiencing Gender in Society
- Introduction to this Part
- Chapter 5. A Postmodern Understanding of Family and a Modernist Notion of Motherhood
- Chapter 6. Kasena Women's Critique of Gender Roles and Gender Justice through Proverbial Jesting
- Chapter 7. Women Writer's Networks and Connections in the Eighteenth-century British Literary Market
- Chapter 8. Overcoming the 'Crushing Hand of Power:' Mary Wollstonecraft's Sense of the Collective Identity and Cooperation in The Wrongs of Woman
- Chapter 9. Josephine Butler and the Ladies' National Association for the Repeal of the Contagious Diseases Acts: The Construction of Gender and Sexual Identity
- Chapter 10. Inscribing the Body: Life-Writing Practices of Nineteenth-Century American Women
- Chapter 11. A London for Them: Virginia Woolf's The London Scene as a Tourist Guide for Women
- Part 3. Gendering Ethnicities
- Introduction to this Part
- Chapter 12. Writing the Unspeakable: Violence against Women in Rozena Maart's The Writing Circle
- Chapter 13. The Construction of Female Identity in the Protagonists of Woman Hollering Creek. Never Marry a Mexican and Bien Pretty
- Chapter 14. The Arab Mother: Friend or Foe? The Mother-Daughter Relationship in the Contemporary Greater Syrian and Egyptian Feminist Novel
- Chapter 15. Paradise Regained: From Black Madonna to New Eve. Religion and Marital Abuse in Zora Neale Hurston's 'Sweat'
- Chapter 16. Cultural Roots, Wholeness and the African Diaspora
- Part 4. Experiencing Gender in the Novel
- Introduction to this Part
- Chapter 17. Border Transgressions and Bodily Mutations in Larissa Lai's Salt Fish Girl: A Feminist Dystopia
- Chapter 18. Science Fiction as a New Discursive Space for Multiple Gender Constructions
- Chapter 19. Kept: A Victorian Mystery and In the Red Kitchen: Wrongful Confinement Revisited in Neo-Victorian Fiction
- Chapter 20. The Poetic Ordeal: Figuring Experience in Angela Carter's The Passion of New Eve (1977)
- Chapter 21. The Female Warrior: Rejecting Utopia
- Chapter 22. A 'Mixt Figure' or a Hermaphrodite: Truth, Fiction and the Experience of Writing in Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World (1666)
