Genders 23 : Bodies of Writing, Bodies in Performance

Thomas Foster

ISBN 10: 0814726461 / ISBN 13: 9780814726464

Edité par NYU Press - IPS Apr 1996, 1996

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Neuware - What do narratives by British suffragettes of being forcibly fed have in common with the representation of indigenous women in Canadian police archives How are literary representations of domestic violence related to the use of silence as a strategy of resistance in African American women's writing How are modernist fictions of gay male desire connected with ambiguous sexual performances in rock music or with images of Vietnam veterans in American horror movies What does a narrative of women's participation in Bengali national resistance movements share with an ethnographic study of prostitution in Papua New Guinea These are the some of the specific questions raised by the essays in this volume, which examines a wide variety of historical and cultural locations where differently sexed, gendered, and racialized bodies have been constructed. More generally, this volume addresses theoretical debates over whether embodiment is best understood through representations or performances. Are bodies written or enacted The different answers to these questions have important consequences for how we understand the inscription of bodies with systems of power and the possibilities that exist for resisting those systems. [ go to the Genders website ].

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Genders 23 : Bodies of Writing, Bodies in Performance
• Éditeur: NYU Press - IPS Apr 1996
• Date de parution: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0814726461
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780814726464
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 229 L x 152 H x 24 P (en millimètres) 229 millimètres de largeur par 152 millimètres de hauteur par 24 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 647 grammes

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Synopsis

What do narratives by British suffragettes of being forcibly fed have in common with the representation of indigenous women in Canadian police archives? How are literary representations of domestic violence related to the use of silence as a strategy of resistance in African American women's writing? How are modernist fictions of gay male desire connected with ambiguous sexual performances in rock music or with images of Vietnam veterans in American horror movies? What does a narrative of women's participation in Bengali national resistance movements share with an ethnographic study of prostitution in Papua New Guinea?
These are the some of the specific questions raised by the essays in this volume, which examines a wide variety of historical and cultural locations where differently sexed, gendered, and racialized bodies have been constructed. More generally, this volume addresses theoretical debates over whether embodiment is best understood through representations or performances. Are bodies written or enacted? The different answers to these questions have important consequences for how we understand the inscription of bodies with systems of power and the possibilities that exist for resisting those systems.
[ go to the Genders website ]

À propos des auteurs

Thomas Foster is Professor of English at the University of Washington.

Carol Siegel is Associate Professor of English at Washington State University, Vancouver and author of Lawrence Among the Women: Wavering Boundaries in Women's Literary Traditions and Male Masochism: Modern Revisions of the Story of Love.

Ellen E. Berry is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Women's Studies program at Bowling Green State University.