{"product_id":"gender-and-sexual-fluidity-in-lesley-graydon-9780367502249","title":"Gender and Sexual Fluidity in 20th Century Women Writers: Switching Desire and Identity","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book analyses twentieth-century writers who traffic in queer, non-normative, and\/or fluid gender and sexual identities and subversive practices, revealing how gender and sexually variant women create, revise, redefine, and play with language, desires, roles, the body, and identity. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough the model of the \"switch\" -someone who shifts between roles, desires, or ways of being in the realms of gender or sexual identity - \u003cem\u003eGender and Sexual Fluidity in 20th Century Women Writers: Switching Desire and Identity \u003c\/em\u003eexamines the intersecting locations of gender and sexual identity switching that six prolific, experimental authors and their narratives play with: Gertrude Stein, Jeanette Winterson, Kathy Acker, Eileen Myles, Anne Carson, and Anne Carson's translations of Sappho. The theory and identities revealed create and give space to-by their playful, exploratory, and destabilizing nature-diverse openings and possibilities for a great expansion and freedom in gender, sexuality, desires, roles, practices, and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis is a provocative and innovative intervention in gender and sexuality in modern literature and gives us a new vocabulary and conversation by which to expand women's and gender studies, LGBTQ and sexuality studies, identity studies, literature, feminist theory, and queer theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lesley C. Graydon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0367502240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367502249\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 186\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.60d","brand":"Lesley C. Graydon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44127699632383,"sku":"9780367502249","price":52.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9237dea2-6a23-4491-8c8e-87b938470c6a.jpg?v=1687454731","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gender-and-sexual-fluidity-in-lesley-graydon-9780367502249","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}