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Sex, gender and time in fiction and culture [electronic resource] /

by Davies, Ben; Funke, Jana; ProQuest (Firm).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011Description: xi, 222 p. : ill.ISBN: ; .Subject(s): Sex in literature | Gender identity in literature | Time perception in literature | Homosexuality and literature | Queer theory | Time in motion pictures | Time in art | Sex in popular culture | Electronic booksOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Sexual Temporalities, B.Davies & J.Funke -- PART I: BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS: NEGOTIATING HISTORY AND FUTURITY -- Queer Medieval Time in Hamlet (1921); B.Bildhauer -- No Present; S.Guy-Bray -- History's Tears; M.O'Rourke -- Jeanette Winterson's Love Intervention: Rethinking the Future; A.Rine_ -- PART II: IN AND OUT OF TIME: SEXUAL PRACTICES, SEXUAL IDENTITIES -- Hymenal Exceptionality; B.Davies -- Time for the Gift of Dance; S.Dillon -- The Case of Karl M.[artha] Baer: Narrating 'Uncertain' Sex; J.Funke -- Transgender Temporalities and the UK Gender Recognition Act; E.Grabham -- PART III: (UN)BECOMING: NEGATIVITY, DEATH AND EXTINCTION -- Unbecoming: Queer Negativity/Radical Passivity; J.Halberstam -- Difference, Time and Organic Extinction; C.Colebrook -- Busy Dying; V.Rohy -- Index.
Summary: "Investigating modern art, literature, theory and the law, this book illustrates the different ways in which sex, gender and time intersect. It demonstrates that time offers new critical perspectives on sex and gender and makes problematic reductive understandings of sexual identity as well as straight and queer time"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Sexual Temporalities, B.Davies & J.Funke -- PART I: BACKWARDS AND FORWARDS: NEGOTIATING HISTORY AND FUTURITY -- Queer Medieval Time in Hamlet (1921); B.Bildhauer -- No Present; S.Guy-Bray -- History's Tears; M.O'Rourke -- Jeanette Winterson's Love Intervention: Rethinking the Future; A.Rine_ -- PART II: IN AND OUT OF TIME: SEXUAL PRACTICES, SEXUAL IDENTITIES -- Hymenal Exceptionality; B.Davies -- Time for the Gift of Dance; S.Dillon -- The Case of Karl M.[artha] Baer: Narrating 'Uncertain' Sex; J.Funke -- Transgender Temporalities and the UK Gender Recognition Act; E.Grabham -- PART III: (UN)BECOMING: NEGATIVITY, DEATH AND EXTINCTION -- Unbecoming: Queer Negativity/Radical Passivity; J.Halberstam -- Difference, Time and Organic Extinction; C.Colebrook -- Busy Dying; V.Rohy -- Index.

"Investigating modern art, literature, theory and the law, this book illustrates the different ways in which sex, gender and time intersect. It demonstrates that time offers new critical perspectives on sex and gender and makes problematic reductive understandings of sexual identity as well as straight and queer time"-- Provided by publisher.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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