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So much of great literature centers on explorations of gender, sex, and sexuality. What does it mean to be a proper man or woman; what if one cannot be properly called either? Should one wield one's sexual power politically? What is the relation between law, divine or secular, and sexuality? What does it mean to fail at doing gender? These are just some of the questions that this volume, edited by Margaret Breen, Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at University of Connecticut, examines. Essays will consider a range of texts, including Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji, John Milton's Paradise Lost, Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Sharon Dennis Wyeth's Tomboy Trouble in light of issues of gender, sex, and sexuality, and their interplay.

Sex in literature --- Sex (Psychology) in literature --- Gender identity in literature --- Love in literature --- Sex in literature. --- Sex (Psychology) in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Love in literature.

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The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction is the first large-scale reference work of its kind, critically assessing the relations of gender and genre in science fiction, especially-but not exclusively-as explored in speculative art by women and LGBTQ+ artists across the world. This global volume builds upon the traditions of interdisciplinary inquiry by connecting established topics in gender studies and science fiction studies with emergent ideas from researchers in different media. Taken together, they challenge conventional generic boundaries; provide new ways of approaching familiar texts; recover lost artists and introduce new ones; connect the revival of old, hate-based politics with the increasing visibility of imagined futures for all; and show how SF stories about new kinds of gender relations inspire new models of artistic, technoscientific, and political practice. Their essays are grouped into five conversations-about the history of gender and genre, theoretical frameworks, subjectivities, medias and transmedialities, and transtemporalities-that are central to discussions of gender and SF in the current moment. A range of both emerging and established names in media, literature, and cultural studies engage with a huge diversity of topics including eco-criticism, animal studies, cyborg and posthumanist theory, masculinity, critical race studies, Indigenous futurisms, black girlhood, and gaming. This is an essential resource for students and scholars studying gender, sexuality or science fiction. -- Provided by publisher.

Science fiction --- Gender identity in literature. --- Sex (Psychology) in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Feminism and literature.

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"Sex Changes with Kleist" analyzes how the dramatist and poet Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) responded to a change in the conception of sex and gender that occurred between 1790 and 1810. Specifically, Katrin Pahl shows that Kleist resisted the shift from a one-sex to the two-sex and complementary gender system that is still prevalent today. With creative close readings engaging all eight of his plays, Pahl probes Kleist's appreciation for incoherence, his experimentation with alternative symbolic orders, his provocative understanding of emotion, and his camp humor. Pahl demonstrates that rather than preparing modern homosexuality, Kleist puts an end to modern gender norms even before they take hold and refuses the oppositional organization of sexual desire into homosexual and heterosexual that sprouts from these norms. Focusing on the theatricality of Kleist's interventions in the performance of gender, sexuality, and emotion and examining how his dramatic texts unhinge major tenets of classical European theater, "Sex Changes with Kleist" is vital reading for anyone interested in queer studies, feminist studies, performance studies, literary studies, or emotion studies. This book changes our understanding of Kleist and breathes new life into queer thought--Provided by publisher.

German literature --- German literature. --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- Sex (Psychology) in literature. --- Sex (Psychology) in literature. --- History and criticism --- General. --- Kleist, Heinrich von, --- Kleist, Heinrich von, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- 1800-1899.

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Desire in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- Psychological fiction, American --- Sex (Psychology) in literature. --- Sex in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- History and criticism.

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Genres [Letterkundige ] --- Genres [Literaire ] --- Genres littéraires --- Letterkundige genres --- Literaire genres --- Literary form --- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature --- Sekse (Psychologie) in de literatuur --- Seksuele rolpatronen in de literatuur --- Sex (Psychology) in literature --- Sex role in literature --- Sexe (Psychologie) dans la littérature --- Sex (Psychology) in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- History --- Mamet, David --- Criticism and interpretation --- Mamet, David, 1947 --- -Criticism and interpretation