The new woman : literary modernism, queer theory, and the trans feminine allegory /

The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory traces the use of the trans feminine as an allegorical figure, from the practice's origins in nineteenth-century sexology through writings in the fields of psychoanalysis, Modernist fiction, and contemporary Queer...

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Hlavní autor: Heaney, Emma (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2017.
Edice:FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.)
On-line přístup:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1986373
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  • List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on Usage; Preface; Introduction; Part I: The Modernist Allegory of Trans Femininity; 1. The Development of the Allegory of Trans Femininity: Sexology, Gay Rights, Psychoanalysis, and Literary Modernism; 2. Blooming into a Female Everyman: Feeling like a Woman in Joyce's Ulysses; 3. The Flesh That Would Become Myth: Barnes's Suffering Female Anatomy and the Trans Feminine Example; 4. Ceased to Be Word and Became Flesh: Trans Feminine Life Writing and Genet's Vernacular Modernism; Part II: Materialist Trans Feminism against Queer Theory; 5. A Triumphant Plural: Post-Structuralism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine6. Materialist Trans Feminism against Queer Theory; Notes; Works Cited; Index.