Masculinities without Men?: Female Masculinity in Twentieth-Century Fictions (Sexuality Studies Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (802 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0774809973 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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Among the twentieth-century fictions Noble analyzes most closely are texts that have been the focus of lesbian, queer, and feminist analysis: Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness (1928), Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues (1993), and the film Boys Don't Cry (1999). In addition, her study includes an analysis of Rose Tremain's Sacred Country, a text that has never before been studies with the context of female masculinity.Of interest to scholars and students with an interest in sexuality and gender studies, this book also makes a vital contribution to both literary criticism and cultural studies.. Noble looks at nineteenth-century sexology, drama, and trial transcripts, and at late twenthieth-century counter-cultural texts, popular film and documentaries, and theoretical texts. Arguing that the masculine female figure that appears in the late twentieth-century culture and fiction has much in common with that of the late nineteenth century, she illustrates the ways in which both are represen
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Jean Bobby Noble is clearly in the process of staking out a provocative and cutting-edge terrain within gender studies.? Aubrey Hanson and Kit Dobson, Canadian Woman Studies, Winter/Spring 2005Attentive to the detailed narrative work of prose fiction writers and the interpretive responses they provoke, Noble engages complex masculinities with analytical subtlety and ethical sensitivity "Masculinities Without Men? "provides openings through which to envision gender transformations as mutually constitutive, without denying their respective struggles and integrities. It is here that this book provides a bridge between queer studies, gender studies and feminist studies that is extremely valuable? Susan Driver, TOPIA 15, July 2006 . It approaches important literary and filmic texts and key areas of gender and sexuality studies in a thoughtful manner. Its thorough the
Jean Noble teaches in the Women's Studies Department at the University of Victoria.