{"product_id":"gender-and-sexual-fluidity-in-20th-century-women-writers-switching-desire-and-identity-paperback","title":"Gender and Sexual Fluidity in 20th Century Women Writers: Switching Desire and Identity - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLesley Graydon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLesley C. Graydon, \u003c\/strong\u003ePh.D., is an educator, writer, and therapist. She has taught at City College, Hunter College, Bronx Community College, and New York City College of Technology. She also leads workshops, groups, and has a private practice. She has the honour of being awarded the first Ph.D. interdisciplinary concentration in LGBTQ\/ Sexuality Studies in the United States. Her alumnis include Simon Fraser University, City College, and The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 186\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.2 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42099551273095,"sku":"9780367502249","price":100.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/5b5491f7736ef9f61af2030c36f3a628.webp?v=1732375078","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/gender-and-sexual-fluidity-in-20th-century-women-writers-switching-desire-and-identity-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}