{"product_id":"gertrude-steins-transmasculinity-chris-coffman-9781474438094","title":"Gertrude Stein's Transmasculinity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArgues that Gertrude Stein's gender can best be described as 'transmasculine'\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis thoughtful and sophisticated book views Gertrude Stein's life and writings through the lens of transgender theory. Reframing earlier scholarship that falsely assumes that Stein's masculinity was a misogynist manifestation of self-hatred, Chris Coffman argues that her gender was transmasculine and affirms her masculinity as a vital force in her life and work. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book uses Stein's writings - and others' literary and visual texts about her - to illuminate the ways her transmasculinity was formed through her relationship with her feminine partner, Alice B. Toklas, and through her masculine homosocial bonds with modernist figures such as Jane Heap, Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway and Carl Van Vechten.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKey Features: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eReads Stein's experimental writing through transgender theory\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eApproaches Gertrude Stein's masculinity and relationship with Alice B. Toklas through transgender theory\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines Stein's masculine homosocial bonds with male modernists such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, and Carl Van Vechten\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers new readings of materials from the Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers at Yale University's Beinecke Library\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chris Coffman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1474438091\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474438094\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/06\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.90d","brand":"Chris Coffman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43935513739519,"sku":"9781474438094","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_226ed0c6-07cf-400e-b886-86a5815cc0d5.jpg?v=1681420235","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gertrude-steins-transmasculinity-chris-coffman-9781474438094","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}