| Masculinities Without Men?: Female Masculinity in Twentieth-Century Fictions Contributor(s): Noble, Jean Bobby (Author) |
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ISBN: 0774809965 ISBN-13: 9780774809962 Publisher: University of British Columbia Press OUR PRICE: $103.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Gender Studies - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 809.933 |
| LCCN: 2004401596 |
| Series: Sexuality Studies |
| Physical Information: 222 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Gay - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Conventional ideas about gender and sexuality dictate that people born with male bodies naturally possess both a man's identity and a man's right to authority. Recent scholarship in the field of gender studies, however, exposes the complex political technologies that construct gender as a supposedly unchanging biological essence with self-evident links to physicality, identity, and power. In Masculinities without Men? Jean Bobby Noble explores how the construction of gender was thrown into crisis during the twentieth century, resulting in a permanent rupture in the sex/gender system, and how masculinity became an unstable category, altered across time, region, social class, and ethnicity. |