Investigating modern art, literature, theory and the law, this book illustrates the different ways in which sex, gender and time intersect. It demonstratesthat time offers new critical perspectives on sex and gender and makes problematic reductive understandings of sexual identity as well as straight and queer time 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. INDICE: List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors -Introduction: Sexual Temporalities, 'B.Davies & J.Funke ' - PART I: BACKWARDSAND 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
- ISBN: 978-0-230-27547-8
- Editorial: Palgrave MacM
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 240
- Fecha Publicación: 01/03/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido