Simone Chess

Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature (eBook, PDF)

Gender, Performance, and Queer Relations

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines male-to-female (MTF) crossdressing in early modern drama, prose, and poetry. Chess argues that MTF crossdressing episodes are rich sources for socially-oriented readings of queer gender-that crossdressers' genders are constructed and represented in relation to romantic partners, communities, and broader social structures like marriage, economy, and sexuality. These relational representations show that the crossdresser often benefits financially, socially, and erotically from his/her queer gender presentation. The book makes a larger space for queer, genderqueer, male-bodied, and queer-feminine representations in conversations about early modern gender and sexuality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317360865
• Artikelnr.: 44896617

Autorenporträt

Simone Chess is an Assistant Professor of English and an affiliate of the Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Program at Wayne State University in Detroit. Her research interests are in Early Modern literary and cultural studies, queer studies, and gender and sexuality studies. She has published articles and book chapters on the topics of crossdressing, bathroom activism, ballads, and blindness.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Passing Relations 1. Doublecrossdressing Encounters: Haec Vir and Hic Mulier
The Faerie Queene
May Day
and "Robin Hood and the Bishop" 2. Crossdressed Brides and the Marriage Market: A Mad World
My Master
Epicoene
and "Phylotus and Emelia" 3. Crossdressing and Queer Heterosexuality: Arcadia
Urania
Isle of the Gulls
and "Sport Upon Sport" 4. Crossdressing
Sex
and Gender Labor: Convent of Pleasure
Gallathea
and "The Male and Female Husband" Epilogue