Karen Love

Lies Before Our Eyes

The Denial of Gender from the Bible to Shakespeare and Beyond. Dissertationsschrift

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Have we ever really believed in gender? Is there any evidence that we have resisted, rejected, and denied the division of human beings into 'male' and 'female'? Both our charter narratives and popular media murmur a persistent «no». The theories of Luce Irigaray, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Roland Barthes, when applied to works as varied as Bible stories, parables, nursery rhymes, Greek myths and drama, Shakespeare's plays, and contemporary film reveal a new character - the transcengenderist mucosa.
The transcengenderist mucosa - an original metaphor derived from our own deep physical structures: our permeable cellular membranes - deconstructs the equilibrium of binary gender transcends 'male' and 'female' by being, simultaneously, both and neither. Through the agency of the transcengenderist mucosa, who operates in the liminal space between male and female, we recognize that 'gender' does not exist in reality, and that the violence and destruction inherent in the binary definition of gender can be transcended.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 10193
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 14mm x 140mm x 210mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9783039101931
• ISBN-10: 3039101935
• Artikelnr.: 24941800

Autorenporträt

The Author: Karen Love lectures in Media Culture, Women's Studies, and Communications and is the Programme Manager for Digital Media at the Southern Institute of Technology in Invercargill, New Zealand. She received her Ph.D. in Literature and Criticism from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1999, and has published in both literature and management communications.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Images of the Mucosa as Angelic Metaphor in The Sex-Gender Binary in Western Culture - Violence as a Legacy of the Sex-Gender Binary - Bakhtin, Barthes, and the Mucosa - Mining the Traces of Same/Other Sexuality in Western Narrative Tradition - Tracing the Mucosa in Greek and Judeo-Christian Charter Narratives - The Mucosa in Antigone and The Scarlet Letter - Identifying Falstaff as the Mucosa - An Ethics of Sexual Difference: Falstaff as an Agent of Renewal and Regeneration.