Sex, Gender and Time in Fiction and Culture

by B. Davies (Editor), J. Funke (Editor)

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230275478
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	03/01/2011
Edition description:	2011
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

BEN DAVIES PhD candidate and teaching assistant in the School of English, University of St Andrews, UK.

JANA FUNKE Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter, UK.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

''This volume brings the questions of how time may be thought through sex and gender, and how sex/gender may be fundamentally temporal, to a wonderful range of disciplines and historical moments. It not only extends and broadens recent inquiries into sex and time, but also questions any too-easy binary between queer temporality and straight

temporality. These beautifully written, theoretically complex essays come to us at exactly the moment we need them.''- Elizabeth Freeman, Professor of English, University of California, Davis, USA

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