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Presenting Gender
Chris . Ed(S): Mounsey
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Description for Presenting Gender
Hardback. Editor(s): Mounsey, Chris. Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 301 pages. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 168 x 21. Weight in Grams: 612.
Presenting Gender engages with one of the most intriguing aspects of Early Modern and Enlightenment culture: gender passing, the phenomenon of passing oneself off as a member of the opposite biological sex. This collection of ten historically informed and theoretically sophisticated essays by European and American scholars employs "passing" as a pivotal practical, ideological, and textual term for investigating the relations among gender, sex, subjectivity, politics, and economics in a wide range of texts and social and cultural practices during the period 1600-1800. The relations between sex and gender, and biology and culture are found to be imbricated but ... Read more
Presenting Gender engages with one of the most intriguing aspects of Early Modern and Enlightenment culture: gender passing, the phenomenon of passing oneself off as a member of the opposite biological sex. This collection of ten historically informed and theoretically sophisticated essays by European and American scholars employs "passing" as a pivotal practical, ideological, and textual term for investigating the relations among gender, sex, subjectivity, politics, and economics in a wide range of texts and social and cultural practices during the period 1600-1800. The relations between sex and gender, and biology and culture are found to be imbricated but ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
301
Condition
New
Series
Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
Number of Pages
301
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611481372
SKU
V9781611481372
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Ref
99-15
About Chris . Ed(S): Mounsey
Chris Mounsey is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Winchester. He is the author of Christopher Smart: Clown of God (2001) and editor of Presenting Gender: Changing Sex in Early-Modern Culture (2001), both from Bucknell University Press.
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