Other sexes : rewriting difference from Woolf to Winterson /

Other sexes : rewriting difference from Woolf to Winterson /

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Author / Creator:	Harris, Andrea L., 1962-
Imprint:	Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2000.
Description:	1 online resource (xv, 187 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory.
Subject:	Winterson, Jeanette, -- 1959- -- Criticism and interpretation. Woolf, Virginia, -- 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation. Hauser, Marianne -- Criticism and interpretation. Barnes, Djuna -- Criticism and interpretation. Barnes, Djuna. Hauser, Marianne. Winterson, Jeanette, -- 1959- Woolf, Virginia, -- 1882-1941. English fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century. Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century. American fiction -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Difference (Psychology) in literature. Gender identity in literature. Sex role in literature. American fiction -- Women authors. Difference (Psychology) in literature. English fiction -- Women authors. Feminism and literature. Gender identity in literature. Sex role in literature. Great Britain. United States. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11109877

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ISBN:	0585276544 9780585276540 0791444554 0791444562 9780791444559 9780791444566 0791444562 9780791444566
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Summary:	"In 1929, Virginia Woolf used the phrase "other sexes" to point out the dire need to expand our way of thinking about sexual difference. The fiction studied here does just that, by sketching the contours of a world where genders, sexes, and sexualities proliferate and multiply." "Focusing on a selection of novels by Woolf, Djuna Barnes, Marianne Hauser, and Jeanette Winterson - novels that cross conventional boundaries between British and American, modern and postmodern, canonical and noncanonical - Andrea L. Harris argues that there is a continuum in these novelists' investigations of gender. Taking as theoretical models Judith Butler's theory of performance gender and Luce Irigaray's concept of the sensible transcendental, Harris analyzes increasingly more radical challenges to the notion of two sexes and two genders throughout the twentieth century, through which new combinations of sex, gender, desire, and sexual practice are created."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Harris, Andrea L., 1962- Other sexes. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2000 0791444554
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Table of Contents:

(Re)placing the Feminine in Feminist Theory
"This difference ... this identity ... was overcome": Reintegrating Masculine and Feminine in Virginia Woolf's The Waves
"The Third Sex": Figures of Inversion in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood
"A Secret Second Tongue": The Enigma of the Feminine in Marianne Hauser's The Talking Room
A Feminist Ethics of Love: Jeanette Winterson's Written on the Body.