Masculinities without Men?: Female Masculinity in Twentieth-Century Fictions (Sexuality Studies Series)
By Jean Bobby Noble.
Description
In this groundbreaking study, Jean Bobby Nobel maps historical similarities in fictional, cultural, and representational practices between the periods of modernism and postmodernism -- from 1918 to 1999. Noble looks at nineteenth-century sexology, drama, and trial transcripts, and at late twenthieth-century counter-cultural texts, popular film and documentaries, and theoretical texts. Arguing that the masculine female figure that appears in the late twentieth-century culture and fiction has much in common with that of the late nineteenth century, she illustrates the ways in which both are r...
ISBN(s)
0774809973, 9780774809979
