Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature: Gender, Performance, and Queer Relations - Couverture rigide

Chess, Simone

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1138951218 ISBN 13 : 9781138951211

Editeur : Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

This book examines male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry. Chess argues that MTF crossdressing episodes are rich sources for socially-oriented readings of queer gender-that crossdressers' genders are constructed and represented in relation to romantic partners, communities, and broader social structures like marriage, economy, and sexuality. These relational representations show that the crossdresser often benefits financially, socially, and erotically from his/her queer gender presentation. The book makes a larger space for queer, genderqueer, male-bodied, and queer-feminine representations in conversations about early modern gender and sexuality.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Simone Chess is an Assistant Professor of English and an affiliate of the Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Program at Wayne State University in Detroit. Her research interests are in Early Modern literary and cultural studies, queer studies, and gender and sexuality studies. She has published articles and book chapters on the topics of crossdressing, bathroom activism, ballads, and blindness.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1138951218
• ISBN 13: 9781138951211
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 196
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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